HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Money Supply, Scottish Assembly, Welsh Nationalism
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Illustrates the degree to which britain as well as other places and grown dependent on oil. Protestant parliament in a protestant state, catholics not treated as equals. Always dominated by unionist by a 3 to 1 margin. Significant benefits available in the north that weren"t available in the south. Political movement inspired in part by u. s. civil rights movement, demanding an end to discrimination and calling for full equality within northern. Catholic civil rights movement, people who are not the most oppressed, but are also not willing to accept continuing inequality. Also engaged in by unaffiliated civilians and the police. People were arrested, convicted, and put in prison, they were ones that hadn"t actually been engaged in the bombing. Only released after many years of campaigns to overturn those verdicts. Irish people whether long resident or short term became automatic suspects. 1970s, liberalization of divorce law, decriminalization of abortion and male homosexuality, and the breakdown of censorship.
