Liberlism

• Progress is the goal of a society

England

• There were elections in 1830
• They weakened the conservation control in the house of Congress
• Parliament was split into the House of Commons and the House of Lords
• In the House of Commons there were wealthy people from the middle class
• Th election was the first time that the House of Commons won the election
• The House of Lords is scared by this
• They do not want to have to deal with the liberals in the House of Commons
• King William threatened to make some people in the House of Commons Lords in the House of Lords 
• The Reform Bill of 1832
• Doubled the number of eligible voters in England 
• In 1845 the Potato Famine hit
• Robert Peel pushed for reform because he thought that if a reform was not made between the rich and the poor in England, revolution would break loose. 
• The Corn Laws were repealed 
• Because of this, he lost his seat as Prime Minister
• Between 1848 and 1851, as a result of the potato famine many Irish decided to leave Ireland and emigrate to the United States. 
• The Chartist movement tried to feed off of the anxiety over reform
• The Charters wanted a national charter that would result in universal human suffrage
• Everyone would have the right to vote 

France

• Charles X was in a bad position
• He dissolved his government and called new elections 
• The liberals won the election, which Charles did not like
• Charles X was forced to abdicate the throne 
• Louis Phillipe became the new monarch
• His reign was known as the July Monarchy 
• He was the Duke of Orleans: The Orleanist 
• During his reign, he tried to deal with the cares and anxieties of the people
• He brought out the tri-color flag as the official flag of France
• The Bourgeois was the upper-middle class of France
• They are the people that Louis will try and cater to
• He can claim that he is helping the middle class, while he is really helping people who are pretty well off 
• The liberals and the reformers did not like this because they thought that the government was not doing the right thing
• 1848- There were a number of revolutions