Ulysses” by A. Tennyson
27 Gennaio 2019Damiano Mazzotti
27 Gennaio 2019
Schematizzazioni per una lezione di inglese della prof.ssa Masseroni sul Vittorianesimo
- List the main reforms of the period
| Reform Act – 1832 | Abolished rotten boroughs. The Act granted seats in the House of Commons to large cities that sprang up during the Industrial Revolution, and took away seats from the “rotten boroughs”-those with very small populations. |
| Factory Act- 1833 | Prevented children from being employed more than forty-eight hours a week and no person under 18 could work more than sixty-nine hours a week. |
| Ten HoursAct -1847 | Limited the working hours to ten a day for all workers |
| Poor Law Amendment Act – 1834 | It refused outdoor relief to those people who could not support themselves by admitting them to a workhouse |
- Which were the two most important tendencies of the period?
| Free trade | Abolition of tariffs on imports and exports. Repeal of Corn Laws |
| Chartism | Movement which sprang from popular discontent both with the conditions of workers and with the 1832 Reform Act, which had given the right to vote to so few.
6 points: universal adult male suffrage – equal electorate districts – the right for a man without property to ba an MP – secret ballot – annual gneral election and payment of members of parliament. All these demnads were rejected and the movement slowly died. |
- What was the Great Exibition?
It was taken in 1851. Goods from all all over the world were exhibited. It was housed in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park.
- Liste the events that supported the settlement of the British Empire
| 1839 – 1842 | Opium War”
In order to protect its trade routes against other nations Britain started the so called Opium War” . Eventually Britain obtained access to five Chinese ports and the control of Hong King |
| 1850 | Britain began to face the threat of Russian Expansion. The British support of Turkey led to the outbreak of war in the Crimea (1853 – 1856). Russia lost |
| 1857 | India crisis. The native soldiers threatened British rule in India.
Cause of the discontent: British had revolutioned local life by redistributing the territory into new administrative units and by imposing their style of life. As a consequence the Government of India was transferred to the Crown directly and Queen Victoria became Empress of India” |
| 1882 | When the Egyptian nationalists brought down the British ruler, Britain invaded Egypt. Egypt got independence only in 1956 when the Suez Canal was nationalised by Egypt. |
| 1884 | Invasion and take-over of Sudan. With the pretext of bringing civilisation to the Africans the British succeded in seizing large areas of the African Continent. |
| 1899 -1902 | In this period Britain was at war in South Africa against the Dutch settlers and the Boers; the stakes were high: gold in Transvaal and diamonds at Kimberly. Eventually Britain won. |
Reform Acts
| 1832 | Vote to almost all male members of middle classes |
| 1867 | Vote to all settled male tenants |
| 1884 | Vote to males in rural and mining areas |
| 1918 | Universal male suffrage and vote to women over 30 |
| 1928 | Vote to all adult women |
| 1969 | Minimum voting age from 21 to 18 |
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