HIS236H5 Lecture Notes - Early Modern Europe, Kit Kat, Jonathan Swift
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From norfolk, served as queen anne"s secretary of war. Giving positions and jobs to people he can control in government. People who walpole control in government: old core, or back benchers. Will work anyone as long as they support his initiatives. The whig party is the party of order. Puts together a spy system that roots out jacobites. Makes all the tories out to be complete jacobites. Solidifies the place whig party has as the predominant party. He embraces tories" political agendas when it was popular. Whigs: from party of revolution to party of order. Parliaments can now meet for 7 years (parties now sit in power for 7 years without a general elections). Deer poaching, cutting down young trees, lurking in the woods with your face painted black is punishable by death. Whigs are trying to create an absolutist state under walpole. Elizabeth l. eisenstein, the printing press as an agent of change & the printing revolution in.
