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