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The Victorian Age
America
immigrants
going West
new territories
Texas
California
New Mexico
North and South
North: modern economy
South: plantations, slavery
Civil War
South vs North
North won
about slavery
Abraham Lincoln
"Emancipation Proclamation"
freed slaves
in enemy territory
anti-slavery
1st president of the States
assassinated
succeeded by
Andrew Johnson
who tried 2
reconcile North and South
but failed
after the war
slaves free
but met with hostility
Ku Klux Klan
settlers moved West
hunting natives
4 resources
Gilded Age
peaceful era
period of wealth
esp. 4 exploiters of
oil industry
steel industry
gold, natural resources
Amendments
14th
citizenship 4 former slaves
15th
vote 2 black men
named after Queen Victoria
reigning period
1837-1901
a period of
technological advance
Britain: workshop of the world
thx 2 coal, cheap iron
Great Exhibition
steam locomotive
then w other destinations
railway age
Metropolitan Railway
1st underground 1
as a greater means of comm.
first 4 coal mines
helped industrial prosperity
communication advances
telegraph
Penny Postal System
British Empire expansion
"The White Man's Burden"
Brit's profits
raw materials, new markets
wars
Crimean War
2 prevent Russians
from assaulting
Constantinople
in Turkey
1° media-covered war
immense human cost
the Brits won
1st ever nurse
Florence Nightingale
Opium Wars
against China
Brits won
so they obtained
Hong Kong
Shanghai
Boer War
gave Brits control over
South African Republic
Orange Free State
was the start of
modern Imperialism
colonies became
self-governing states
India
rebelled against injustices
Indian Mutiny
suppressed very quickly
colonies of settlement
Canada, Australia, New Zealand
Irish famine
caused emigration
2 America
and Australia
Africa
conquest of
Egypt
Uganda
Rhodesia
Kenya
Niger
major issues
urban poverty
overcrowding
terrible hygiene
social injustice
excessive violence
New Metropolitan Police Force
founded 4 it 2 end
reforms
Reform Bills
1832
male middle class
1867
workers in towns
1884
workers in mines and fields
extended voting rights
Factory Acts
limited working hours
Education Act
elementary educ.
compulsory
repeal of the Corn Laws
changed British economy
from agricultural
2 industrial
Trade Union Act
made trade unions
fully legal
hypocritical respectability
exposed by
Anti-Victorian novelists
movements
Utilitarianism
Jeremy Bentham
max happiness
4 highest number of ppl
Evangelicalism
social reform, human welfare
moralistic, puritanical aim
William Wilberforce
one of its leader
led campaign
2 abolish slavery
thru the Slave Trade Act
who was
at 1°
helped by Prime Minister
Lord Melbourne
married to her cousin
Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
almost Egalitarian
close to the common man
5th in line 4 the crown
new parties:
Liberal
old Whigs
William E. Gladstone
interested in
domestic affairs
political reforms
4X Prime Minister
Conservative
old Tories
Benjamin Disraeli
interested in
foreign affairs
imperial policy
ironically resp. 4
2nd Reform Bill
Trade Union Act
Independent Labour Party
new views
Charles Darwin
Social Darwinism
affirmed inequality
and fault of the poors
new feminists
wanted women to vote
like J. S. Mill
who was a M. P.
Marxism
Fabianism
asked 4 social reforms
a form of Socialism
named after
the Fabian Society
wanted social revolution
named after Karl Marx
original form of Communism