The Victorian Age and British Empire, Schemi e mappe concettuali di Inglese

Scarica The Victorian Age and British Empire e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! The victorian age An age of Industry and reforms The Chartist movement and the reform Bills Queen Victoria The reform bill of 1832 Satysfied the middle class Unsatisfied the working class They still live in poor conditions Manifested They seemed on the verge of revolution The largest moviment was that of the Chartist So called because the drew up a People’s Charter Asking for the vote to the working class The second reform bill 1867 gave the right vote municipal workers No minator and agricol workers The third reform bill 1884 Suffrage was extended to al male workers Free trade and Great Exhibition Protectionism abandoned 1846 adopted free trade 1851 thanks Queen Victoria and Prince Albert = the Great international Exhibition of London They revealed Britain a the main economic and political power Industry and science The triumph of Industry coincided with the invention of the steam locomotive and railways. 1848 covered much of the country 1849 regular stemboat service linked britain with America and rest of world. Scientific research Study of electricity Gas lighting Applied to the invention and constructions of machine Samuel Morse’s invention of the telegraph Introduced in London in 1816 The poor: urban slums Terrible conditions for poor Poor Law 1834 The poor amassed in workhouse,jobs in the return for food and shelter The large city the misery and moral degradation became different souches such as painting,novels... Social reforms The new political parties During the Victorian age, applied different reforms Mines Act 1862 Emancipation of religious sects Trade Union Act No women and children in mines Catholics allowed hold government Legalized the activities of the unions of workers The grow in political importance of the working class was marked: The foundation of the Labour Party 1900 Thanks to this and third Reforms Bill, worker’s representatives could sit in Parliament for the first time