Political Consequences of Industrialization CHY4U Unit 3 Activity 3

Liberalism, Democracy and intro to marxism Day 1 Liberalism, Democracy and intro to marxism

Economic Impact Recall output worksheet from day of industrialization Elisabeth Gaynor Ellis and Anthony Esler, World History: Connections to Today – Teachers Edition (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001), 520.

Social Impact Recall the lives of the workers in mills and mines. National Archives Learning Curve, Victorian Britain, Industrial Nation, Source 4, n.d., http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/victorianbritain/industrial/source4.htm (October 15, 2005)

Political Impact Did you think it would affect people’s political thinking? HOW?

Review of Liberalism  Moderate Radical Conservative At your table, fill in the top part of the Chart on Liberalism, recalling the major ideas involved in this moderate ideology. Vocab: Franchise = the vote Moderate  Radical Conservative

The Dirty D Word Timeline of Democracy in Britain Year People who could vote 1815 Less than ____ % (that’d be…) 1832 Reform Act of 1832 gave people like factory owners the vote: in total, about ____ % of adult males (but still only 750 000 people). “However, the Act gave the vote in towns only to men who occupied property with an annual value of £10, which excluded six adult males out of seven from the voting process.” (National Archives, Getting the Vote, N.d., http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/getting_vote.htm (May 1, 2017))

Secret ballot introduced. Year People who could vote 1867 The Reform Act of 1867 doubled the amount of people who could vote. Cities got more representatives in parliament. Skilled workers pushed for this change. 1872 Secret ballot introduced. 1880s Farm workers and most other ________ got the right to vote. 1918 Universal male suffrage achieved. 1928 ___________ got the right to vote.

19th Century Political Spectrum Place on the spectrum: Fast change is good Change is scary Not too fast, not too slow Let’s go back to the way things used to be 3 2 4 1 5

19th Century Political Spectrum Place on the spectrum: The community is way more important than the individual Community is important but individual rights matter too Both community values and individual rights must be protected Protecting individual rights and freedoms is our priority 3 2 4 1 5

19th Century Political Spectrum Place on the spectrum: We must ignore tradition and focus on the future Both tradition and the future are important We can keep some tradition but must focus on the future We must uphold tradition 3 2 4 1 5

Connection Between Voting and Ideologies Political parties want voters… If a certain group of people starts to get the right to vote, a political party might change its policies to appeal to them New Liberalism moved to the the left to appeal to workers, which meant it supported more government intervention

What If… A certain group of people feels excluded from democracy? Feel like they don’t “count”? They might want to …

Background of Marx Born 1818 in western “Germany”, died 1883 in London Son of a lawyer Heavily influenced by the enlightenment, Napoleonic Code (a relatively enlightened document that set out rights) Studied philosophy (he became a ‘Hegelian’ radical) Became a journalist, later founded a newspaper that was shut down in Prussia Became a socialist and tried to unite European socialists Ousted from Germany, Belgium and France due to his liberal/radical views

Moved to London in 1849 He was able to live and work mostly due to the financial generosity of Friedrich Engels who owned a cotton mill in Manchester Tried to organize workingmen’s political parties but was not highly successful in this Took a long time for his ideas to gain popularity with intellectuals and workers Mostly after his lifetime Mostly due to the work of Engels and Marx’s daughter in publishing his works