the british reform movement 8.39. the atlantic or democratic revolution (aka the bourgeois...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: The British Reform Movement 8.39. The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution (aka The Bourgeois Revolution) American Independence French Revolution English](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082505/56649e665503460f94b60fd0/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The British Reform Movement8.39
![Page 2: The British Reform Movement 8.39. The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution (aka The Bourgeois Revolution) American Independence French Revolution English](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082505/56649e665503460f94b60fd0/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution(aka The Bourgeois Revolution)
American Independence
French RevolutionEnglish ReformRevolutions up to 1848
![Page 3: The British Reform Movement 8.39. The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution (aka The Bourgeois Revolution) American Independence French Revolution English](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082505/56649e665503460f94b60fd0/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Parliament and Reform
Moderate Key issue is disenfranchisement
Reform led Parliament to shift from a select, closed body to a representative, open body.
![Page 4: The British Reform Movement 8.39. The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution (aka The Bourgeois Revolution) American Independence French Revolution English](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082505/56649e665503460f94b60fd0/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Edmund BurkePhilosophical conservatism
◦House should be mathematically representative
◦Landowning interests should govern◦Members of Parliament should follow
their own best judgment◦Promoted reform within the system◦Reform in England is delayed by
reaction to American and French Revolutions
![Page 5: The British Reform Movement 8.39. The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution (aka The Bourgeois Revolution) American Independence French Revolution English](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082505/56649e665503460f94b60fd0/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
ScotlandScottish highlands had moved
against England during Seven Years War
Troops are quartered in ScotlandMen are forbidden to wear kilts
![Page 6: The British Reform Movement 8.39. The Atlantic or Democratic Revolution (aka The Bourgeois Revolution) American Independence French Revolution English](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022082505/56649e665503460f94b60fd0/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
IrelandAnti-British, pro-French
sentimentsInspired by American RevolutionBritish suppress Irish RebellionAct of Union (1801) creates
United Kingdom