1. Chapter 10 Notes

2. 1. Democratic Reform and Activism
Political Structure:
Monarch serves as head of state
Parliament holds the real power
House of Lords (Inherited)
House of Commons (Elected)

3. More politics…
Only 6% of voting population had the right to elect the Commons
Landowners
What Class runs the government?
The vote will be expanded to the growing Middle and Working Class

4. Reform Bill of 1832
Wealthy Middle Class want to extend the right to vote
Revolution in 1830
Law eased the property requirements so that well to do men in the middle class could vote.
Modernized districts for electing members of Parliament
“Rotten Boroughs”

5. Chartist Movement People’s Charter of 1838
Suffrage for ALL men and annual Parliamentary elections
Secret Ballot
End Property requirements for serving in Parliament and end property requirements
Rejected initially 1867

6. Queen Victoria What were “ideals” of her time? Queen for 64 years
Popular, brought her empire to wealth and power
Accepted a new, powerless role for the monarchy
Symbolic ruler with no political power

7. Women Want to Vote Peaceful drastic
Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)
Militant Organization
Women gain the right to vote in GB and US after World War I

8. French Troubles
After the Franco-Prussian War, France decides on a new gov’t
In 1871 the Paris Commune, a radical group seizes Paris
In 1875 the National Assembly votes to set up a republic- The Third Republic (lasted over 60 years despite the fact the gov’t changed every ten months!)

9. Paris Commune

10. The Third Republic

11. The Dreyfus Affair
1894 Captain Alfred Dreyfus (Jewish Officer) accused of selling military secrets to Germany.
Court finds him guilty based on false evidence and life in prison
Framed by other officers

12. Zionism Emile Zola denounces the army in France
Persecution of Jews due to anti-Semitism
Jews fled Europe for the US
Wanted a separate homeland in Palestine
Leader Theodr Herzl