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Sec 19 Proiect
Sec 19 Proiect
Sec 19 Proiect
Lemnaru
Leonard
01
The years of power and
danger
The danger at home, 1815-32
• Great domestic danger until 1850
• Increase in bread prices and misery
• 1815-35 country - townspeople
nation
Reform
• Law reform by the Whigs for
representation
• Revolution prevention
Workers’ revolt
• 1834 Tolpuddle farmworkers’
union
• 1838 People’s Charter rejection
• Industrial success
Family life
• Shift towards stricter family life
• Disparity between husband and
wife
• Harsh conditions
02
The years of self
confidence
The railway
• Railway symbolised industrial
power
• Affordable passenger trains
• suburb development, middle-
class living, and domestic
servant employment
The rise of the middle classes
• Rapid middle-class
growth
• High social mobility
• Accessible public
schools
The growth of towns and cities
• More suburbs due to migration
• Poor living conditions, slums
• Middlesbrough, exemplary industrial
town
Population and politics
• Less religious nation
• Catholic and Nonconformist
rights
• Liberalism
Queen and monarchy
• Reign 1837-1901
• Declining monarchical
power
• "Our Life in the
Highlands"
Queen and empire
• 1830s expansion period
• Opium Wars and Colonisation of
India
• Heavy burden empire
Wales, Scotland and Ireland
• Welsh population growth
• Scottish industrialisation
divide
• Irish struggle for freedom
03
The end of an age
Social and economic
improvements
• Significant improvements in the
economy, education and arts
• University growth
• Decrease in church authority,
increase in social centres
The importance of sport
• Popular sports: cricket and
football
• Sports exported abroad
Changes in thinking
• Personal freedom, capitalism,
and government intervention
• Widespread poverty
• Arts and Crafts Movements,
Charles Darwin
The end of "England's summer"
• New Liberal
government
• Welfare state and
crisis
• Labour Party
The storm clouds of war
• Weakened British
power
• Start of The Great
War
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