the victorian age

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The Victorian Age

Respectability

sexuality was generally repressed both its in public and private forms

prudery

there was growing emphasis on the duty of man to respect and protect the woman

women controlled the family budget and brought up the children

was a misture of morality and hypocrisy

self-restraint, good manner and self-help

importance of education and hygiene

A complex age

freedom was linked with religion as regarded freedom of cosnscience

the people belived in god and in science

modernity was prised but there was a revival of Gothic and Classicism art

progress, reforms and political stability coexisted with poverty and injustice

Foreign policy

Crimean war

first conflict reported in newspaper by journalists

Britain supported Italian agaisnt Austria

India

1857 the Indian Mutiny, agains the British rule

the most lucrative colony

involved in two opium war agains China

england gained access to five Chinese ports control of Hong Kong

Technological progress

1860

London underground

money were invested in museums

1851

the graet exibition

1850

second wave of industrialisation

The Irish Potato Famine

the crisis forced the prime minister to Abolish the corn law in 1849

unknown plant disease from America

caused the destruction of potato crops in 1845

ireland depend on potatos

terrible femine

emigration

Chartism

the second reform act (1867)

the secret ballot was introducted

enfranchised part of the urban male class

movement failed

people's charter (1838) demanding

abolition of the property qualification for memebership

universal male suffrage

annually elected Parliaments

paid MPs

equal electoral districts

Workhouses and Religion

the religion

strong force

workhouses

hard work and monotonous diet

idea behind

a dreadful life will inspire the poor

to try to imporve theit own condition

system of regimentation

An age of reform

the Poor Law Amandament act

creation of workhouses

the Factory act

children

between 13 to 18

no more than 72 work hours a week

between 9 to 13

no more than 48 work hours a week

the Great reform (1832)

had trasfered voting privileges

to the small boroughs to the large towns

Queen Victoria

merried Prince Alberte

9 childrens

age of progress

science, economy and social reforms

throne in 1837

she role for 64 years

when she was 18