Read the text and answer the following questions:


"In accordance to the provisions of this law, the statute of the Mancomunidad is no longer in force for the provinces of Barcelona, Gerona Tarragona, and Lerida, approved by Royal Decree of March 26 1914.
The services currently provided by the said Mancomunidad shall be governed until the 30th of June by the current Permanent Council of the Mancomunidad, to be called the “Comisión Gestora Interina de los Servicios Coordinados”.

The government will intervene in the liquidation of the “servicios mancomunales” that are disaggregated, and the measures taken to facilitate it will always be taken into account the average of the official values that in the six months preceding the publication of this law have been obtained in the stock exchange debt securities issued by the Mancomunitat.

Dissolution of the Catalonia Mancomunitat 20th march 1925.

Questions:

 

  1. What kind of source is A? (2 points)(4 lines maximum and justify it)
    It is a primary source.
    Primary sources are actual records that have survived from the past, such as letters, photographs, articles.
    It is a contemporary law of the facts it explains (date: 1925)
    It is also a textual and a public source.

    Its content is also political and juridical, it is a law that means the liquidation of the Mancomunitat


  2. When was it created? What was happening during this time period?
    (Explain the historical context - national and international, in which the Mancomunitat was ...)( 2 points)
    It was created in 1925, the second period of the Restauration, under the monarchy of the Alfonso XIII Borbon.
    The coup d’état of Primo de Rivera, its first times 1923-1930, tried to stop the streets violence (in Catalonia known as “pistolerism) and the Morocco war problems.


  3. What is the main idea of the text? (5-6 lines) (1 point)

  4. What was the "Mancomunitat", explain its main job it did and who was Prat de la Riba? (7-8 lines) (3 points)
    The "Mancomunitat was an organization consisting of the union of the four Provincial Councils  (BCN,Girona,Lleida  and Tarragona) with an administrative character only and without financial resources. It was the first precedent of the autonomous government introduced by the second republic.
    But, despite that fact, the Mancomunitat acted like a government and started a general modernization task in which it achieved a high effectiveness:
    culture and education

    telephone network,
    the
    development of electricity,

    the enhancement of key roads and railway ( all of them enabling the population to have better access to modern life)
    (examples students can  also…:IE Catalans,Biblioteques, escola del treball, escola Montessori, d’administración local…
    Its first president was Prat de la Riba , leader of the Lliga Regionalista de Catalunya, a moderate right party of the Catalan bourgeoisie

  5. What was the dissolution of the "Mancomunitat"due to? Explain what happened in Spain from 1923 to 1925 and give your opinion about it (who was the president of the government and why) (Lines 6-7) (2 points)

    Due to: link-
    how did it work- link-
    mancomunitat- link-
Darrera modificació: divendres, 8 de febrer 2019, 10:26