Responses to Classical Liberalism
Revolutionary Tales
Liberalism
Ism This Working?
Individuals
100

They believed in equal voting districts for their people.

Chartists

100

This was sent to the British Empire as a way of initiating the American Revolution.

The Declaration of Independence 

100

This was a phenomenon likely linked to the Enclosure Acts taking away the Common Land, forcing people to find new homes.

Urbanization

100

Profit = Theft

Marxism
100

Considered the founder of Classical Liberalism and the "Father of Capitalism"

Adam Smith

200

They created a few private communities to attempt to work out solutions to the problems of the Industrial Revolution

Who are the Utopian Socialists

200

This was the cause of so many injuries and the loss of life during the Industrial Revolution.

Poor working conditions

200

What is the relationship between Classical Liberalism and the Industrial Revolution

Industrial Rev. is a direct manifestation of Classical Liberal values

200

The successor to its Classical version.

What is Modern Liberalism

200

They left a note with his name on it, usually by a destroyed piece of machinery

Who is Ned Ludd?
300

Wanted to ensure that only the smartest and the best, not the uneducated masses would be able to vote

Classical Consertives 

300

This was the group that consisted of the "Bourgeoisie" in Pre Revolutionary France.

Who are the 3rd Estate?

300

This was the title for the concept of "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer"

Income Gap

300

There is a scale here, but if you get to Communism, you've gone too far.

Socialism

300

A significant contributor to modern history due to his theories, but not in a good way when it came to the actual practice of those ideas

Karl Marx

400

Rejected modern technologies that would take the jobs of their workers.

Who are the Luddites

400

This war was likely a major contribution to 2 revolutions, likely due to its enormous cost.

7 Years of War

400

Characterized by the absence of external constraints on personal decision making

What is Negative Freedom? / Individual Rights & Freedoms

What are Individual rights & freedoms under classical liberalism?

400

A reactionary response to the French Revolution.

Classical Conservatism (Edmund Burke)

400

Respected in history due to his humanitarian concerns, specifically his focus on education for children during the Industrial Revolution

Robert Owen

500

Established in England as a Moderately Socialist "group" in the early 20th Century.

What is the Fabian Society


500

A series of laws established by Napolean that enforced Classical Liberal values

What is the Napoleonic Code?

500

Characterized by positive freedom, social responsibility, and developmental individualism

Modern Liberalism

500

The economic foundation to Classical Liberalism!

Capitalism


500

Not a fan of those he considers "unworthy" participating in Government.

Edmund Burke