Presentazione Essenziale

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The Industrial Revolution

The Franch Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars

BRITAIN and the AMERICANREVOLUTION

The Romantic Age

The French Revolution (1789-94) opposed the old social order, echoing the Enlightenment ideals of equality, fraternity, and liberty. Influenced by philosophers like Voltaire and Rousseau. In Britain, the revolution was welcomed as a defeat of their old enemy.

Britain and French Revolution

Britain and French

1789-1794

The crisis escalated, leading to the American Revolutionary War near Boston in 1775. On July 4, 1776, America declared independence from Great Britain. With France's assistance in 1778 and Spain's in 1779, George Washington led the Continental Army against the British. The war ended in 1781 with the British defeat at Yorktown. The Treaty of Versailles in 1783 recognized American independence but allowed Britain to keep control of Canada. Britain faced financial ruin after the war but recovered under Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, who implemented the first income tax and embraced free trade principles.

The American Declaration Of Indipendence

1776

THE NAPOLEONIC WARS were a long struggle on land and sea that blasted 15 years. in 1814 he was defeated by England's allies, in the same year he abdicted the throne and was exiled to the island of Elba.

War with France continued when Napoleon Bonaparte (pivotal figure) seized power in 1799 and then crowned himself emperor of France in 1804

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Is a political protest for Britain's "taxation without reprensatation", the colonist destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India. This event rallied American patriota of the 13 colonies to fight for independence.

A street brawl between colonist and a British soldier developed into a bloody slaughter. This event strengthening anti-British sentiments and rousing them to fight for independence

1770 The Boston Massacre

Towards American Indipendenche

1773 The Boston Tea Party

1820; George IV was a fashion and a patron of art and architecture, he donated his father's library to form the basis of the British Museum Library. George IV's death eas met with great relief by the nation, no notable reforms were passed during his reign, except for the CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION BILL which gave Catholics and Dissenters acces to public offices.

GEORGE IV

Britain and the war with France

Disillusionment in Britain grew as the French Revolution entered its radical phase under Robespierre's Jacobin government (1793-94), known as The Reign of Terror, which saw hundreds of aristocrats executed. Following the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, British Prime Minister William Pitt allied with Austria and Prussia against the Revolution, leading Britain into war with France.

WILLIAM IV

1830-1837

He was more liberal then his brother. His reign saw several important reforms that contributed to bring democracy to the nation.

• 1832 "The Reform Act": The vote was extendend to all male members of the middle class but the working classes still did not have any political rights

• 1833 "The Factory Act": This act tried to improve the conditions of children working, the employment of children under the age of nine was forbidden ancd children could not work more than 8 hours.
• 1834 "The Amendement of the Poor Law": With this law parishes were not obliged to give financial help to poor people, but poor people had to go into a workhouse, where they were given clothes and food, in exchange of manual labour, but the condition of working was terrible.

SOCIAL UNREST:The Napoleonic Wars had stimulated insustrial production because of the government's increases demand for foodstuffs,clothing and war munitions. When the war ended thousands of sailors and soldiers found themselves uneployd.

He was the first Hannoverian king. He created his own party "the king's Friends" with the intention of breaking the influence oh Whigs. The king and the Prime Minister imposed heavy taxation on the American colonies.

GEORGE III

1760-1820

Working men reacted and groups of Luddities(textile workers who attributed their problems to techonological innovations) destroyed new weaving frames and attempted to destroy cotton mills that used new machinery. The governement suspended Habeas Corpus and arrested radical leaders. in 1819 in St Peter's Fields in Manchester, un unarmed crowd of protesters was violently dispersed by charging cavalry.

THE PETERLOO MASSACRE