popular culture 1857-1890

Question 1

what opened up newpapers to a wider readership?and what did it improve? by how much?

Answer 1

education acts of 1870 and 1890 which improved literacy from 80% to 97%

Question 2

what did newpaper report on?

Answer 2

empire stories

Question 3

who did newpaper write critically about? and what did it encourage?

Answer 3

the indiginous people of africa and india and it encourage white superiority

Question 4

what did the times report exaggerate about the indian mutiny during 1857-8?

Answer 4

the number of murder , and the rape of british childern and women

Question 5

what did the times report about the indian mutiny help shape?

Answer 5

british opinion by encouraging the publicto view the sepoys as barbaric and in need of civilising

Question 6

what did the telegragh exaggerate about the arabi pasha revolt in 1882?

Answer 6

it exxaggerated the number of european killed in the roits in alexandria in egypt

Question 7

what did the telegraghs report on the arabi pasha revolt helped shape?and what did this lead to the british doing?

Answer 7

this shaped british people’s views by offering support to Prime minister Gladstone to intervenve in egypt, defeat arabi pasha & occupy the country after 1882

Question 8

how did literature influence the british people?

Answer 8

shaped the view of empire by encouraging its growth and providing justifications for it

Question 9

name to literature that shaped young people?and when?what did it convey?

Answer 9

the boys own paper in 1879 and king solomon’s mines in 1885 conveying soildery and bravery all over the globe

Question 10

what did exhibitions help shape?

Answer 10

the view that britons were intellectally, socially and physically more superior confirming the view that britain had a moral right or imperial duty to control territories overseas

Question 11

name two exibites?and what did they show?

Answer 11

1886 colonial indian exibitions, which had a human zoo with indian craftsman and the africa exibition in 1890 highlighted scientific and anttopological exibits showing the ‘other’

Question 12

what did this exibitions shape?

Answer 12

peoples view by justifying british presence in africa and indian giving a justification for imperalism

Question 13

what was social darwinismand what was it used for?

Answer 13

a distortion charles darwins theory of evolution and survial of the fittest was used as a self serving justification to support racial prejudices and justify white superiority