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The industrial revolution in Great Britain And The Victorian Era (1837…
The industrial revolution in Great Britain And The Victorian Era (1837-1901)
Upper class
Old and New rich
Old
Aristocracy- looked down upon the new rich
New rich
New money/People who were in the middle class (worked industry)
Trades
Large
landowners
(power in
Parliament)
Education
School for boys/ People went to public school
Middle class
Education
No education until 1870
Industrial Revolution
Moved up to the upper class
Trades
Manufacturerss /
bankers / financiers
/ merchants
Working class
Industrial Revolution
Called the underclass were the poverty line
Children workers
48 hours a week
Terrible working
conditions
Disastrous effect
especially on
children's health
Trades
Factory workers /
rural labourers
Queen Victoria
Became queen 1837 at age of 18
Empress of india 1876
1901 the Queen died
Industrial revolution
Workshop of the world
new inventions
transports
undurground,steam boat, bycycle, electric railway,..
everydaylife
photograph,telegram,electric light,...
tower bridge
materials
iron
steel
coal
Imperial
expansion
To protect
British interests
The Opium War
(against China)
The Crimean War
The Indian Mutiny
The Boer War (South Africa: British vs Dutch settlers)
Scientific
discoveries
Geology
and
biology
They questioned the belief in a
universe which was both stable
and transparent to the intellect
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)
On the Origin of
Species (1859)
Empiricism
Promotion of a long series of reforms
popular education
trade union organisation
development of co-operatives
extension of representation to all citizens
emancipation of women