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VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE
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Early Victorian thinkers
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Utilitarianism
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Usefulness, happiness, avoidance of pain.
Empiricism
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Supported popular education, trade union organisation, extension of representation to all citizens, and the emancipation of women.
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The Victorian compromise
The Victorians were great moralisers
they supported personal duty, hard work, decorum, respectability, chastity.
Respectability a mixture of morality and hypocrisy. The unpleasant aspects of society – dissolution, poverty, social unrest – were hidden under outward respectability.
‘Victorian’, synonymous with prude, stood for extreme repression; even furniture legs had to be concealed under heavy cloth not to be ‘suggestive’.
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Workhouses
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It was scary
Families Were Split Up, Only in the chapel. Not allowed to speak to each other
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IRISH POTATO FAMINE
Causes
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What was done?
1846: Prime Minister Peel abolished the Corn Laws, which imposed tariffs on imported corn, keeping the price of bread high.
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CHARTISM
universal male suffrage
equal electoral districts
voting by secret ballot
pay for Members of Parliament
annual elections of Parliament
FOREIGN POLICY
England gained access to five Chinese ports and the control of Hong Kong after the Second Opium War.
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Florence Nightingale led a team of 38 nurses at Scutari base hospital during the Crimean War. Once back to England, she formed an institution for the development of the nursing profession.
WORD: RESPECTABILITY, KEY. IMPORTANT VALUE. You had various children