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GEORGE I
 The first Hanoverian king of Great
Britain.
 He ascended the throne after
Anne’s death (1714).
 He didn’t speak English.
 Son of the Duke of Brunswick-
Lüneburg and Sophia.
Whigs
THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I MADE THE WHIGS
SUPREME
Secure possession of the Government.
Majority in the first Parliament of George I.
They repealed the Acts of Anne’s Tory ministers. They passed the Septennial Act.
Allowed Parliament to sit for seven years
EARLY HANOVERIAN PERIOD
POLITICS RELIGION
 Good deal of corruption
Prime Minister, Walpole
 Church of England slept
and rotted in peace.
 The leaders were hardly
Christians.
Jacobites
REBELLION BY THE JACOBITES
Sympathies with the Tories.
Supporters of the Catholic James
Stuart.
JACOBITES RISINGS: TWO REBELLIONS
MAR’S REBELLION SHERIFFMUIR
 Turned out to be inconclusive Name of its leader
 The rising in the west came to
nothing
Both took place in Scotland
Its leaders were incompetent
No help came from France
Whig Government dealt energetically with the situation
FAILURE OF THE RISING

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George i

  • 1. GEORGE I  The first Hanoverian king of Great Britain.  He ascended the throne after Anne’s death (1714).  He didn’t speak English.  Son of the Duke of Brunswick- Lüneburg and Sophia.
  • 2. Whigs THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE I MADE THE WHIGS SUPREME Secure possession of the Government. Majority in the first Parliament of George I. They repealed the Acts of Anne’s Tory ministers. They passed the Septennial Act. Allowed Parliament to sit for seven years
  • 3. EARLY HANOVERIAN PERIOD POLITICS RELIGION  Good deal of corruption Prime Minister, Walpole  Church of England slept and rotted in peace.  The leaders were hardly Christians.
  • 4. Jacobites REBELLION BY THE JACOBITES Sympathies with the Tories. Supporters of the Catholic James Stuart.
  • 5. JACOBITES RISINGS: TWO REBELLIONS MAR’S REBELLION SHERIFFMUIR  Turned out to be inconclusive Name of its leader  The rising in the west came to nothing Both took place in Scotland
  • 6. Its leaders were incompetent No help came from France Whig Government dealt energetically with the situation FAILURE OF THE RISING