England 18th century

2.  Parliament assume almost absolute responsibility for running the
country during George I and George II reigns.
 First time for England having a Prime Minister (Sir Robert
Walpole Whig 1721 to 1742)

3. The Enlightenment was almost finished, and with it
the loss of the American Colonies in 1776.
Agricultural Revolution rural population landless
and destitute. But also created a massive increase in
agricultural production.
Industrial Revolution transform the industry from
hand-work to machine-work in factories.
IR= Reform bill 1832 organized opinion.

4. Victorian Era
1837-1901
The Victorians believed
that peace was a
necessary pre-condition
of long-term prosperity.

5. Major Events
ofVictoria's
Reign.
 Zulu:TheTrue Story
 Women's Rights
 The Irish Famine
 Irish Home Rule:An imagined future
 The Chartist Movement 1838 - 1848
 Reforming Acts
 Beneath the Surface: A Country ofTwo Nations
 The Boer Wars
 The CrimeanWar

6. Victoria's
empire
Pros Cons
Industrial Revolution.
new markets, a consumer boom
and greater prosperity for most of
the propertied classes.
It also brought rapid, and
sometimes chaotic change as
towns and cities expanded at a
pace which precluded orderly
growth.
poor housing conditions, long
working hours, the ravages of
infectious disease and premature
death were the inevitable
consequence.
It also endured a devastating
famine from 1845 - 1847, the
result of a failed potato crop
among a peasant population
dangerously dependent on one
food source for sheer existence.

7. During the
Victorian age,
Britain was the
world's most
powerful nation.
 Though not always effortlessly, it was able to maintain a world
order which rarely threatened Britain's wider strategic interests.
 The single European conflict fought duringVictoria's reign - the
CrimeanWar of 1854 - 1856 - contrasted markedly with the 18th
century, during which the British were involved in at least five
major wars, none of which lasted less than seven years.

8. Her Politic practice
to be informed
aboutGovernment
policy but
remaining Neutral
marked the
position of the
Crown in the
Constitution.

9. People identify
with her
Queen, she
was a simple
woman and
widow.
Popular
support of
Monarchy

10. Child labor,
workhouses-are the
values ofthat time
really something worth
reviving?
 Victorian forebears were positive, moralistic, upstanding right.
 Her essentially middle-class views and life-style led to an
affirmation of values, paternalistic integrity, the sobriety and
puritanism of public life
 in 1980’sThatcher Government wished to return.

11. The Rise of
WorkingClass
 Industrial Revolution start its second stage, Britain became “The
workshop of theWorld”.
 Reform Act 1832 which granted franchise to tenants of land.
 Social reforms creation of Police force, free compulsory education
1872, gradual legal recognition of trade unions, extension of the
vote- town laborers 1867, agricultural laboures 1884
 1893 founding Labour Party by Keir Hardie.

12. Wait for your
turn to answer.
Name the
years
Monarchy Event Explain Victorian era
1 1 1 1 1
2 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3