2.3 A Sudden change

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2.3 A sudden change

Describe in one sentence what you think is happening in these pictures.

(You'll get two minutes per picture!)

King, fealty, constitution

Revolt, France

William II

•  By 1840 William II has succeeded his father.

• He is conservative

• He wants a lot of power for the monarch and less for parliament and the government. 

Liberal

• The prosperous people of the Netherlands do not agree.
• They are liberals.
• Political ideology: each person's individual freedom is at the front and in the center

Those who paid taxes should have a say!

Exercise!

Read ''Save the Throne and the Crown''. Try to summarise this part in your own words. Share your summary with the class when you're done!

Thorbecke

• The king is scared of a revolution
• So Johan Rudolf Thorbecke revises the constitution in 1848.

Homework

Paragraph 2.3 exercise 1 to 6