英美概况第七章 英国部分 Hanoverian England and Industrial Revolution.pptVIP

Chapter VII Hanoverian England and Industrial Revolution The House of Hanover George I---George III (1714—1811) The Industrial Revolution 1. The reasons Britain was the first 2. The process of the revolution 3. The result of the revolution The House of Hanover George I---George IV (1714—1811) 1. Anne (1702—1714) -----She was the last member of the Royal House of Stuart. In 1707, the Act of Union was passed, Scotland and England were united as Great Britain. 2. George I (1714—1727) -----the first Hanoverian King He created the cabinet system of government, Walpole was considered as the first prime minister. 3. George II (1727—1760) Winning the Seven Years’ War, Britain became the world’s leading colonial power. 4. George III (1760—1811) ---- the last king to attempt recapturing the royal power He lost the American colonies. 1756–63, worldwide war fought in Europe, North America, and India between France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and (after 1762) Spain on the one side and Prussia, Great Britain, and Hanover on the other.???1?Nature of the WarThe struggle was complex in its origin and involved two main distinct conflicts—the colonial rivalry between France and England and the struggle for supremacy in Germany between the house of Austria and the rising kingdom of Prussia. It was preluded in America by the outbreak of the last of the French and Indian Wars and in India by fighting among native factions and the struggle there between the French governor Dupleix and the British statesman Robert Clive.??? The Industrial Revolution time: 1760’s -----1840’s definition: Agricultural and home- based trades and industries gradually gave way to