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VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901) - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)
Queen Victoria
empress of India
British empire: 400 million people
Colonialism.
England: most powerful nation in the world
India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong
no revolutions
reasons: economical, political, cultural
tea, silk, cotton
Society
optimism
respectability
modernity
upper class (aristocracy), middle class (shopkeepers, lawyers, doctors), working class (poverty, starvation)
importance of personal status
women: angels of the home (wife + mother)
victorian compromise
complex, contradictory era
economic ease/ poverty
morality /corruption
strong liberalism / social problems
faith / science
economic development and social change
difficulties in agriculture
migration from country to towns
illnesses, prostitution, alcoholism
political parties
Whigs: liberal party
Tories: conservative party
chartism
social movement demanding right to vote for all men
1884: right to vote for male workers
petitions, charters