Origins of Collective Responsibility

I. Introduction

II. The Last Years of Robert Walpole

A. Recovery from the Excise Crisis of 1733

B. War of Jenkins’s Ear (1739-1741)

C. War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

III. The Administration of the Pelhams

A. Carteret’s Failed Administration

B. Uneasy Cohabitation

C. Confrontation with George II

1. Ultimatum

2. Resignation

D. Broad-Bottom Administration (1744-1754)

IV. Context of Domestic Political Change

A. War of Austrian Succession

B. Jacobite Rising (1745)

V. Conclusion: War and the Shaping of the Government

Key Terms

Robert Walpole

War of Jenkins’s Ear

War of Austrian Succession

John Carteret (First Earl of Granville)

Thomas Pelham (First Duke of Newcastle)

Henry Pelham

William Pitt (the Younger)

Charles Edward Stuart

‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’

Battle of Culloden

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