Victorian Education Flashcards
(20 cards)
How much did the population increase
2 million to 6 million
Victorian Age
1830-1901
What effect did unregulated industry have
Great prosperity for a lucky few but great misery for the masses
What values did the Victorian Period reflect?
Moral responsibility and domestic propriety
3 periods of Victorian period
Early, mid, and late
Period after Victorian period
Modernism
Victorian period is marked by 2 major events
1) public railways extended
2) British parliament passed a reform bill in 1832
1832 reform bill
Marked beginning of a new age of political power
Time of Troubles
Industrialization was producing rapid change
Chartists
Fought for workers rights
Corn Laws
Laws imposed high tariffs on imported wheat and grain
Mid-Victorian period
Still great poverty but England enjoyed greater prosperity
Crystal Palace
Great Exhibition
Showcased English Progess
Crystal palace
Benthamites
Saw religion as outmoded superstition
Late Victorian period
People began to question practices
Second reform bill
Extended voting rights further to working class citizens
Women’s role in reforms
Not included
The Women question
Debates about women’s rights
How much of England’s population was literate by 1837
Half
