6.4 Equality for all faiths

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Equality for all faiths

paragraph 6.4

Describe, in one or two FULL SENTENCES what life was like in the 19th century for higher class women and working class women.

What did women want to change in the 19th century?

1. They wanted political rights: suffrage
2. They wanted economic rights: to earn their own money
3. They wanted to right to decide over their own bodies: abortions and anticonception
4. A, B and C are all correct.

Which women primarily strived after equal rights?

1. Working class women, they had the worst lives of everyone
2. Higher class women, they were very bored at home
3. All women, because all women were disadvantaged
4. Women who had had education, they learned about the Enlightenment in classes

Which religion was dominant in the Netherlands since the 17th century?

How do liberals view religion in relation to the government?

Learning goals 6.4

• You can explain what changed in the nineteenth century in the positions of various religious groups in the Netherlands.
  
• You can explain what the ideals of the Christian confessional parties were.
  
• You can describe how the ‘school struggle’ went
• You know what pillarization is

Politics and religion in the 19th century

• Since the Dutch Republic, the calvinists were the people with power. 
• Liberals disagreed: they believed that religion is not the business of the government 
• Effect: they decided that religious schools wouldn't get funded by the government.  

Education in the 19th century

Some protestants did not like this. They wanted that everyone in school learned about christianity. 

Especially orthodox protestants (=gereformeerden) believed this. 

To achieve this, they started their own confessional political party. 

= a political party based on religious ideas. 

Schoolstruggle

• Confessionals (both protestants and catholics) are angry they have to pay for their education.  
• They decide to work together in this so-called school struggle
• They get what they want in 1917, the same year as male suffrage. 

Pillarization

The Netherlands is very divided in the 19th century.  

This is called pillarization. 

There are 4 pillars:

1. Liberal

2. Socialist

3. Catholic

4. Protestant