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The Victorian Age victorian-age - Coggle Diagram
The Victorian Age
Empire and Foreign Policy
(late victorian age)
domains of the empire
Ireland
Canada
Australia
New Zeland
Indian Company
African territories
Wars
of the British Empire
The
Crimean war
(1854-56)
war against the Russians
The two
Opium wars
(1839-42; 1856-60)
trade war against China
The
Boer war
(1899-1902)
war against South African settlers of Dutch origin
The
Indian Munity
(1857)
Indian rebellion against the British colonies
Africa colonisation
(1875 - 1882)
Suez passage
America and The Civil war
Northern States:
(Union)
small farms
free labour
developed industry
modernized states
Southern States:
(Confederate States of America)
large farms (plantations)
slavery labour
backward economy
support of Britain
Abraham Lincoln
president of The Union (1860)
declaration of illegality of the confederation
confederate attack
on Fort Sumter (1861)
Emancipation Proclamation
by Lincoln in the (1863)
command of the general
Ulysses Grant
(1864)
End of the conflict,
Union victory
Lincoln Murder (1865)
Reconstruction Acts
(1867)
northern states annexation
The 14th Amendment
American citizenship to former slaves
The 15th Amendment
right to vote for black men
after war
the Great Plains
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Gilded age
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Ku Klux Klan
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a changing society (
Industrial Society
)
Political Factions
Conservative Party
(Tories) by Disraeli
Liberal Party
(The Wings) by Gladstone
Chartist Movement
(1898)
Independent Labour Party
(1892)
Social reforms
Reform Bill
1832
vote to the male middle class
Reform Bill
1867
suffrage to the workers in towns
Factory Acts
1833
limitation of working hours
repeal of the
Corn Laws
1846
transformation of Britain from an agricultural to an industrial economy
Reform Bill
1884
vote to mine workers and agricultural workers
Education Act
1870
compulsory elementary education
Trade Union Act
1875
Industrial and technological advance
new
Communication Systems
Penny Postal System
invention of the telegraph
new
Transportation Systems
Metropolitan Railway (first underground railway)
The
Great Exhibition
exhibition of british economic progress in the Crystal Palace
Age of Optimism and Contrasts, and the End of Optimism (
social changes
)
The years of optimism
(1837-1870)
Evangelicalism
social reform
human welfare
abolition of slavery
from William Wilberforce
Utilitarianism
from Jeremy Bentham
"only what is useful is good"
maximum happiness
End of age optimistic
(1870-1901)
Socialism
founder Karl Marx
Fabian Society
gradual reform rather in revolution
The
suffragettes
women's group in favor of women's education and right to vote
Social Darwinism
pessimistic view of human existence
The
Victorian Compromise
moral code, puritan attitudes, hypocrisy
