Victorian 2 Flashcards
(31 cards)
How to contemporary historians and critics find the Victorian period?
A richly complex example of a society struggling with the issues and problems with modernism
The Jordan reaction against the Victorians is now only a matter of the history of taste, but it’s after effects still sometimes crop up on the term Victorian is employed in an exclusively….. sense, as prudish or….
Pejorative/old-fashioned
Whose words are these?
A childish nightmare to me notion
Ford max ford
But to give the period the single designation Victorian reduces its…
Complexity
Why can we hardly expect generalizations to be uniformly applicable about the Victorian age? What is the solution?
Because it is a period of almost 70 years
To subdivide the age into three phases
What is the timeline of the early period of Victorian age and what is its title?
The early period started from 1830 until 1848 and it’s called a time of troubles
When did the Liverpool and Manchester railway opened?
In 1830
What was the first steam powered, public railway line in the world?
The Liverpool and Manchester railway that opened in 1830 in England
By 1850 6,621 miles of railway line connected all of England’s…. cities
Major
By 1900 England had 15,195 lines of track and an underground railway system beneath…..
London
What was the role of train in the England empire?
The train transformed England’s landscape, supported the growth of its commerce, and shrank the distances between its cities
The opening of England’s first…. Coincided with the opening of the country’s…… parliament
Railway/reform
The … had increased the pressure for parliamentary reform
railway
How was the situation of Representatives in the parliament right before the reform of parliament?
Despite the growth of manufacturing cities consequent to the industrial revolution England was still governed by archaic electoral system where by some of the new industrial cities were unprecedented in Parliament while rotten boroughs elected the nominees of the local squire to Parliament
Why was parliamentary reform necessary soon after the opening of this road?
Because a million of persons will pass over it in the course of this year and see that Heather toe unseen village of Newton and they must be convinced of the absurdity of its sending two members of Parliament while Manchester sends none
What broad England close to revolution?
A time of economic distress
What led working men in agitation for reform?
Manufacturing interests, who refused to tolerate their exclusion from the political process any longer
Why did England finally agree to pass reform bill in 1832 and what did that reform bill do?
The feared the kind of revolution it had seen in Europe and the reform bill transformed England’s class structure
How is the reform of 1832?
The reform bill of 1832 extended the right to vote to all males owning property worth 10,000 pound or more in annual rent. An effect the voting public thereafter included the lower middle classes but not the working classes who did not obtain the vote until 1867 when a second reform bill was passed
In the reform bill of 1832 was more important than the extension of the franchise?
Even more important than the extension of the franchise was the virtual abolition of the rotten boroughs and the redistribution of parliamentary representations
Why does reform bill represents the beginning of a new age and how is that new age?
Because it broke up the Monopoly of power that the conservative landowners had so long enjoyed the reform build represents the beginning of a new age in which middle class economic interests gained increasing power
The newly constituted parliament was able to find legislative solutions to the problems facing the nation.
False
No it was not able it was unable
When is the time of trouble?
The economic and social difficulties attendant on industrialization were so severe that the 1830s and 1840s became known as the time of troubles
