Intro: What are Victorian Values? Flashcards
Early V era ?
1830-1840’s
Middle V era ?
1850-1875
Late V era ?
1875-1901
Percentage of the upper-class?
5%
Percentage of the middle-class ?
20%
Percentage of the working-class ?
75%
When was the mines acts voted ?
What was it about ?
It was voted in 1942.
- No female was to be employed underground
- No boy under 10 years old was to be employed underground.
- Parish apprentices between the ages of 10 and 18 could continue to work in the mines.
When was the recording comittee created ?
In 1842
What was the corn laws ?
When was they voted ?
The Corn Laws were tariffs and restrictions on imported food and grain (“corn”) enforced in Great Britain. They were designed to keep grain prices high to favour domestic producers, and represented British mercantilism.
They were passed between 1814 &dn 1846.
What is the politic of “laisser-faire”
Laisser-Faire is an economic system in which transactions between private parties are free from government’s intervention.
What is the 1833 Factory act?
It is an act which restricted the employment of children in factories, and in the same year the House of Commons approved a grant of £20,000 to the two voluntary bodies. It was the very first occasion on which government assistance to schools was given.
What was the 1832 Great reform act about ?
A parliament act:
Disenfranchising little boroughs and reducing others to only one MP
creation of new constituencies
It enlarged the franchise’s property qualification in the counties, to include small landowners, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers
) It created a uniform franchise in the boroughs, giving the vote to all householders who paid a yearly rental of £10.
What was the new poor law of 1834 about?
The new Poor Law ensured that the poor were housed in workhouses, clothed and fed. Children who entered the workhouse would receive some schooling. In return for this care, all workhouse paupers would have to work for several hours each day.
What is chartism ?
Chartism is a Middle-class movement for parliamentary reforms named after the people’s reform written in 1838 by W.Lovett.
What is the luddites movement ?
It is a 19th century labor movement that railed against the economic fallout of the Industrial Revolution.
What is the difference between the Tories and the Whigs?
Tories have evolved into the Conservatives, Whigs have evolved into the Labour Party.
Tories were exclusively made up of landed aristocracy. They were against reforming the current political system and resistant to change and revolution.
Whigs were mainly aristocrats but increasingly drew support from ‘new money’ the industrial and commercial middle-class. They were less resistant to change and became more and more pro reform as the influence of the new middle class over them grew,
What is the People’s charter?
The People’s Charter detailed the six key points that the Chartists believed were necessary to reform the electoral system and thus alleviate the suffering of the working classes – these were:
- Universal suffrage
- No property qualifications
- Annual parliaments
- Equal representation
- Payment of the Mp’s
- Vote by secret ballot
