Charity, Education, Religion And Christmas

Question 1

The industrial revolution did what

Answer 1

Created a huge gap between rich and poor

Question 2

What was a philanthropist

Answer 2

Someone who tries to help other people by performing charitable acts

Question 3

What did dickens believe about problems in Victorian society

Answer 3

• caused by lack of education
• Dickens was forced out of education to work because of his dad
• He wanted practical ways to help poor

Question 4

What is sabbatarianism

Answer 4

• widespread Victorian privatise to spend Sunday going church and resting
• Dickens was against this because it meant poorer people were denied of any enjoyment on their one day off

Question 5

What was Malthus’s theory

Answer 5

human population grows faster than food supplies

POVERTY WAS INEVITABLE, Dickens believed there was plenty of food to go round