HIST 1084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Wall Street Crash Of 1929, Reform Act 1832, Reform Act 1867
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Democracy’s Rollercoaster
• 1930-1933
Fiction vs. Fact
• Fiction
• Franchise a long-time right
• Natural rights for all
• Peaceful protest
• Enlightenment scripture leads the way
• Fact
• Franchise a slow and recent development
• Painful struggle for vast majority
• Violence was frequent, deaths
• National laws restrict voting
British Working Class Milestones
• 1832 Reform Act
• Right to vote for property owning men
• 1867 Reform Act
• To urban workers
• 1872 Secret Ballot Act
• 1884 Reform Act
• Right to vote for all men over 25
British Women’s Voting Milestones
• 1832 Reform Act
• Women vote taken away
• 1865 John Stuart Mill elected
• Pioneered women’s vote
• 1872 National Society of Women’s Suffrage
Suffrage Militarism
• 1903 Women’s Social and Political Union
• The Pankhursts: Emmeline, Sylvia, Christabel
• Increased violent militarism
• Liberal government refused
Home Stretch
• 1913-1918
• Epsom Derby, June 1913
• WW1
• Representation of the People Act, 1918
• Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act, 1928
Return to Normalcy
• The Roaring 20s
• Second industrial Revolution
• Red Scare
• Birth of Fascism
• 1929 Wall Street Crash
• Benito Mussolini
Post-War Radical Change
• Technological innovation
• Men coming back from war and take jobs
• Consumerism
• People spending
• Model T
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