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VICTORIAN AGE 3 - Coggle Diagram
VICTORIAN AGE 3
The Chartist
Movement and Reform Bills
Political / economic situation
stable
1832 Reform Bill
give middle class - right to vote
working class - poor condition
workers meeting and demonstrations
common
revolution - around the corner
rest of Europe 1848
largest organized workers movement
drew up a People's Charter (1838)
extension of the right to vote to the working class
1867
second
Reform Bill was passed
gave town workers the right to vote
excluded miners / agricultural workers.
1884
third
Reform Bill
right to vote to all male workers.
Free Trade and the Great Exhibition
end of the Napoleonic Wars
protectionism was abandoned
free trade
1851
Great International Exhibition of London
opened by Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert
first World Expo in history
admiring world the wonders of industry and science
Britain
leading political and economic power.
Industry and science
invention of the steam locomotive
age of the railway
1848
covered much of the country
triumph of industry
1849
regular steamboat services
linked
Britain with America and the rest of the world
1816 London was the first city in the world to boast gas lighting in city streets.