Key Historical Terms: Music Economics to Catalan Commonwealth

Key Historical Terms

Definitions: T7

• Music Economics: The Carlists pay a certain amount that would be collected by the provincial councils.
• Zanjón Peace: Spain promised Cuba a broad amnesty, the abolition of slavery, and political and administrative reforms.
• Electoral Fraud: Cheating coalitions, manipulations, and falsifications of the electoral census records.
• Peace of Paris: Spain ceded Cuba, and Jalal sold in Germany to the U.S. and the Pacific Marianas and the Carolines.
• Closure Cases: Boycott of the taxes imposed by Villaverde.

T8

• Federal Tortosa Pact: The federal Crown of Aragon wanted a federal state.
• Greuges Memorial: Unit of Catalan political manifesto.

T9

• Liga Agraria: Cerealistics Owners Association to act as a pressure group to achieve a protective tariff.
• Filoxera: Plague from France that reached thousands of hectares of vineyards in Catalonia.

T10

• Act of Candado: Limited establishment in Spain of new religious orders.
• Cam Law: Compulsory military service.
• Apoticisme: Necessity of direct negotiation between workers and employers.

Bases de Manresa

In 1892, an Assembly was held with the aim of adopting a political program: the basis for the Catalan Regional Constitution. It consisted of 17 items and defined a regional power with the full sovereignty of Catalonia. It granted jurisdiction to the Catalan legislative power, education, justice, public order, minting of the coin. It also proclaimed the official status of the Catalan language and linking nutrition with Spain through an agreement with the Crown.

Commonwealth of Catalonia

In 1907, the Barcelona Provincial Council chose Prat de la Riba as President. In 1911, the Barcelona Provincial Council, with support from other councils, promoted the initiative to pool the four councils of Catalonia. Mauro Canalejas created a project approved by the courts of commonwealths in 1912 but was blocked with the assassination of Canalejas. The Conservative government in 1913 passed the decree and made the provincial pools. The Commonwealth of Catalonia was founded on April 6, 1914. Its president was Enric Prat de la Riba, and 8 members of the Assembly were a board-going. The Regionalist League had a major presence. The commonwealth had 3 presidents: Henry meadow shores in 1917, Josep Puig i Cadafalch until 1923, and Alfonso Hall until 1925. The commonwealth had an educational and cultural project. On the economy, it made a plan to improve the road network and postal and telephone systems and created agricultural technical schools and middle upper areas of cultivation and experimentation was encouraged agricultural cooperatives. In the aspect of culture and education, it reaffirmed the Catalan language and culture (libraries, schools, and studios) and Pompeu Fabra University created the general dictionary of the Catalan language. There was a pedagogical renewal, the school was established industrial school work and school to strengthen local government and prepare professionally.