Industrial Revolution and Disentailment Laws

Imagen Escaleras

• Promulgation of the Constitution
• Recognize individual rights like equality before the law
• Established national sovereignty and the separation of powers
• Cortes of Cadiz
• Liberal system

Ej 11: Industrial Revolution

• Around 1830
• Two main characteristics: slow and partial
• Five causes of industrialization: low demand for industrial articles, lack of entrepreneurial spirit among the bourgeoisie, technological gap, shortage of raw materials, political instability
• Basic industrial sectors: mining, iron and steel industry, textile sector
• Concentrated in Catalonia: textile sector
• Transport: thanks to the law of highways
• First railways: Barcelona-Mataro, Madrid-Aranjuez
• Scarce due to reduced international demand
• Badly affected by the loss of American colonies

Ej 9: Urban Population Growth

• Causes: improvements in nutrition through the spread of maize and potato cultivation, advances in preventive medicine

Disentailment

• Sale of amortized assets tied to certain institutions like nobility, the clergy, or municipalities
• Two main disentailment laws: Mendizabal's Dis (1836-1837) and Mendoza's Law of General Dis (1855)
• Objective: obtain resources for the state, facilitate access to land ownership for the peasantry

Ej 2 Rulet

• The Norfolk four-course system
• Constant crop rotation including fodder crops for livestock
• Spread of crops such as maize and potatoes

Imagen Molinillo

• Steam engine
• James Watt (1769)
• Wood, coal, and raw materials

Ej 5 Desolación

• Improvement of road surfaces and construction of canals

Mapa Complet

• Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russian Empire, Netherlands, Belgium, German Empire, Austrian Empire, France, Romania, Serbia, Italy, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Spain

Completar Pais

• Upper Silesia: Germany
• Financial investment: Switzerland
• North: France
• Iron: Belgium
• Immigration: USA
• Zollverein: Germany
• Fragment: Germany
• Investment: Belgium
• Cotton: USA

Mapa Rojo

• Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, UK, France, Germany
• Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austro-Hungarian Empire

Ej Demost

• A demonstration where people protest against machines