Victorian age Flashcards
1
Q
1832
A
first reform bill
2
Q
1837
A
Victoria becomes queen
3
Q
1846
A
corn laws repealed
4
Q
1851
A
the great exhibition in London
5
Q
1859
A
Charles Darwin’s Origin of species published
6
Q
historical self-consiousness of the Victorians
A
they were aware that they were living in a period of change
7
Q
railway mania
A
railways change landschape and support commercial growth
8
Q
reform bill
A
abolition of rotten boroughs and extension of the right to vote to lower middle classes
9
Q
hungry forties
A
- laisser-faire economy
- financial crash of 1837 and famine
- unemployment and poverty
10
Q
Chartists
A
demands further extension of the vote
11
Q
repeal of the corn laws
A
- by Sir Robert Peel
- abolition of protection tariffs on imported grain
- stimulates free trade
12
Q
condition of literature in England
A
- social criticism in the novels by Charles Dickens
- John Ruskin’s criticism of technological progress and laisser-faire economy
- Anthony Trollope’s novels of tolerance and equanimity
13
Q
great exhibition
A
celebration of science and modern industry (in Crystal palace)
14
Q
British empire
A
- atrocities, oppression, racism
- colonization
- basis of today’s globalisation of trade
- ideological basis for current nationalist Euroscepticism (Brexit)
15
Q
the white man’s burden
A
protect the poor natives and advance civilization (Kipling)
