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The Victorian Age (1837-1861) - Coggle Diagram
The Victorian Age (1837-1861)
The Queen was neutral in politics
She married Prince Albert
Marriage for love (despite he was born in Germany)
They were a
symbol of respectability
1851: The Great Exhibition
After his death, she wore only black dresses
Two main parties:
Liberals
(Whigs) and
Conservatives
(Tories)
The Great Reform Act
Male adults from middle classe can vote
Chartism
Ten Hours Act
All labourers have to work for 10 hours a day
Remotion of Corn Laws
Price of corn was increased
To protect landowner's interests
To help Ireland after a disease of potatoes
Wars
two Opium Wars against China
Control of Hong Kong
War against Russia during the Crimean war
Indian Mutiny
Strong relationship beetween India and England
The other face of the society
Prostitutions and Drugs
Prostitutes lived in little houses called
slums
and they were killed during the night
Bobby (English Policeman)
Jack the reeper
Slums were little houses where lived 7 people and were unhygienic
Workhouses were institutions created by the Church to remove people from the streets
Disables, unmarry mothers and orphans
They have to wear uniforme and eat terribile food
Meaning of being a moraliser
Puritan's moral (hard work, respect)
Respectability was a mixture of morality and hypocrisy
People have to go go the Church also if It was running them or do charitable activities also if they were poor
There were some rules that were imposed but never respected
Epidemics like cholera and typhoid
Women were expected to marry and make home a "refuge" for their husbands
Words about sexual references where removed
A lot of children were pickpockets
Factory Act
Children have to work less than 48h a week
Charles Darwin
He said that man evolved from monkeys
The Church didn't allowed his theory
Some species survive because there are some favourable conditions
Racism, colonialism