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Victorian Era

(1850 – 1914)

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India

McKay Chapters 22 & 23

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Victorian Era

(1850 – 1914)

Second Industrial Revolution

(Chapter 22 pages 718 – 725, 743 – 745)

  1. Describe the condition of British cities in this period.
  1. Explain the causes of the conditions of British cities in this period.
  1. Complete the Mapping the Past on page 721.
  1. Explain the rise of the Public Health Movement
  1. Explain the impact of the germ theory on public health
  1. Describe how Paris became a model for urban planning in the 19th Century.
  1. How did public transportation transform 19th century cities?
  1. Describe the changes in chemistry and electricity in the late 19th Century.
  1. What were the consequences of these changes?
  1. Describe Darwin’s Theory.
  1. Explain Social Darwinism.

Victorian Society

(Chapter 22 pages 725 – 732)

  1. Describe the division of society and its corresponding wealth.
  1. Describe the make-up of the “middle classes.”
  1. Describe the values, culture, and morality of the middle class.
  1. Identify the percentages of the population who worked in agriculture in 1900.
  1. Describe the nature of the working class
  1. Describe the values of the “labor aristocracy”
  1. Describe the roles of domestic servants and why women entered into its service.

Victorian Life

(Chapter 22 pages 732 – 741, 745 – 749)

  1. Why did heavy drinking become less socially acceptable in the 19th century?
  1. Explain how leisure activities changed in the 19th century.
  1. Explain why religious attendance changed in the 19th century.
  1. Explain the nature of companionate marriage and its rise in the 19th century.
  1. Describe the different attitudes toward sex for men and women in the 19th century.
  1. Explain why prostitution became less socially acceptable in the 19th century.
  1. Describe the ideal role of a middle-class woman in the 19th century.
  1. How did working class women’s roles differ from middle class women’s roles?
  1. How and why did child rearing change in the 19th century?
  1. What was the impact of this child rearing change in the 19th century?
  1. Describe the origins and actions suffrage movement.
  1. Explain the rise of the social sciences in the 19th century.
  1. Explain the difference between realism and romanticism.

Nationalism and Unification in France, Germany, and Italy

(Chapter 23 pages 754 – 764)

  1. Explain why Louis Napoleon won the election in 1848.
  1. How did Napoleon consolidate his power?
  1. Explain the economic policies of Louis Napoleon.
  1. Explain the political policies of Louis Napoleon.
  1. Describe the obstacles to Italian unification to 1850.
  1. Explain how Cavour unified Italy.
  1. Explain the role of Garibaldi in unifying Italy.
  1. Explain how Bismarck solved the crisis on the military budget in Prussia.
  1. What role did the wars with Denmark and Austria play in unifying Germany?
  1. Explain how Bismarck used the Franco-Prussian war to unify Germany.

Nationalism and Unification in France, Germany, and Italy

(Chapter 23 pages 764 – 768)

  1. Explain the impact of the Crimean war on Russia.
  1. Identify the Great Reforms of Alexander II.
  1. Describe Russia’s modernization process.
  1. Describe the causes, nature, and results of the Russian Revolution of 1905.
  1. How did Tsarist Russia compare to Bismarck’s Germany?
  1. Describe the attempts at reform in the Ottoman Empire.
  1. Describe the role of the Young Turks.

The Nation-State

(Chapter 23 pages 770 – 780)

  1. Describe the commons themes of the late 19th century nation-state.
  1. Describe the political structure of the German empire.
  1. Describe the actions Bismarck took.
  1. What groups opposed Bismarck’s actions?
  1. Describe the political difficulties of France’s Third Republic.
  1. Describe the Dreyfus Affair and its results.
  1. Describe how political participation expanded in late 19th century Great Britain.
  1. Describe the social policies enacted in late 19th century Great Britain.
  1. Describe the dual-monarchy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  1. Describe how the nation-states garnered support from its people.
  1. Describe how nation-states cultivated national pride.
  1. Describe how nationalism was connected to racism in the late 19th century.
  1. Describe the various acts of anti-Semitism in the late 19th century.

Revisionist Socialism

(Chapter 23 pages 781 – 785)

  1. Describe the “Internationals”
  1. Why did Marx’s predictions fail to come to pass?
  1. Describe Revisionism.

Unit Review

1. Draw a diagram of Victorian Society

  1. Explain how revisionist socialism is different than socialism in the early 19th century.
  1. Describe the ways governments tried to harness nationalism in the late 19th century.
  1. Explain how the Second Industrial Revolution is different that the Industrial Revolution in the early 19th century.
  1. Illustrate German Unification as a food.
  1. Illustrate Italian Unification as a food.
  1. Compare the impact of nationalism on Russia as a toy.

Identify

Who? What? Where? When?

  1. Utilitarianism
  2. Germ theory
  3. Labor aristocracy
  4. Sweated industries
  5. Companionate marriage
  6. Separate spheres
  7. Suffrage movement
  8. Second Industrial Revolution
  9. Evolution
  10. Social Darwinism
  11. Realism
  12. Bloody Sunday
  13. October Manifesto
  14. Red Shirts
  15. Duma
  16. Tanzimat
  17. Young Turks
  18. Reichstag
  19. Kulturekampf
  20. German Social Democratic Party
  21. Dreyfus Affair
  22. Zionism
  23. Revisionism
  24. Paris Commune
  25. Lenin
  26. Vatican Council of 1870
  27. Theodore Hertzel

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