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THE SECOND SPANISH REPUBLIC
PROCLAMATION AND CONSTITUTION
The provisional republican government
improvements in working conditions and the hiring of day labourers
freedom of worship and secularisation measures
an agreement to draw up a statute of autonomy in Cataluña
modernisation of the army and total submission to civil power
Constitution of 1931
Social rule of law
Universal suffrage starting from the age of 23
Extensive declaration of rights and freedoms
Division of powers
Right of the regions to establish statutes of autonomy
Separation between the Church and the state
THE REFORMIST BIENNIUM (1931–1933)
The Statute of Autonomy of Cataluña
It was approved by the Cortes in 1932
alongside the reestablishment of an autonomous government
Procedures began to approve statutes in the País Vasco and Galicia
Army
Active military officers had to swear allegiance to the Republic
Agricultural reform
Land was redistributed, particularly in areas with large landowners
Education
The government saw it as a way to improve the cultural level and opportunities of the lower classes
Religion
The separation between Church and state was addressed to establish a secular society
Social reforms
There was intensive social legislation to improve working conditions
wages and social security for the working class
Manuel Azaña
was one of the most important Spanish politicians of the Second Republic
He was a superb orator
which led him to become one of the main republican leaders
THE BLACK BIENNIUM (1933–1936)
The rejection of the Azaña government’s reforms by broad conservative sectors of society
led to the founding of the Spanish Confederation of Autonomous Rights
This party was made up of Catholic groups
which declared their sympathies with the fascist mode
the anarchists’ demands did not cease and a violent climate of opposition to the government developed
The Casas Viejas incidents
he Civil Guard and Guardia de Asalto brutally suppressed an anarchist uprising
hey not only shot the people involved
those suspected of involvement and their families in an indiscriminate massacre
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
founded the Falange Española
In the October Revolution of 1934
insurgents took towns and mining areas in Asturias
The army brutally repressed the revolutionaries
VICTORY OF THE POPULAR FRONT (1936)
The conservatives tried to form a coalition
the National Front
the left changed its strategy
all factions tried to reach an agreement to achieve consensus
The search for an agreement for an alliance between republicans and socialists to win the elections
led to the constitution of the Popular Front
This broad formation was made up of republican parties
Amnesty for political prisoners
especially those imprisoned during the strikes in 1934
Reintroduction of the Agricultural Reform
which had been abolished by the Radical-CEDA government
Restoration of Catalan autonomy
and its autonomous institutions, with Lluís Companys as president
Strengthening the educational, social and religious reforms
that began during the reformist biennium
