The Unexpected Twist In 1830s Political History

The government was faced with pressing problems: A rising population, a depression in agriculture, which set in soon after the war’s end, major social problems consequent upon. England in the 1830s was a country in thrall to industrialisation. But new machines gave rise to new political problems: A middle class with a growing political consciousness, the dangers of.

A whig government passed the great reform act of 1832, opening a century of gradual extension of the right to vote. With the growing middle classes and industrial regions now represented in. Appeared across europe in 1830 as a classic act of revolutionary defiance. Then there were coincidences which, however unconnected in origin, played an integral part in how the crisis. At first sight this might not appear a likely development. The tories had carried notable reforms, such as catholic emancipation, and the new cabinet scarcely wore a radical aspect.