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This city replaced Paris as the center of European civilization.
What is London?
This form of currency became the standard of international exchange during the Victorian era.
What is the pound sterling?
Name at least two positive reforms that took place during the Victorian era.
The two major legal reforms of the era were the expansion of the vote and the easing of labor inequities.
Some positive reforms were the emancipation of slaves, the repeal of the Corn Laws, and reforms concerning prisons, asylums, public health, and sanitation. Child laborers saw shorter workdays and mandated universal education. Adult laborers saw shorter workdays and safety regulations.
This genre dominated Romantic literature.
What is poetry?
Name at least two reasons that Britain “scrambled for Africa.”
Some reasons for the “Scramble for Africa” included England’s desire for access to diamond mines, the shortened trade route provided by the completion of the Suez Canal, and passage around the Cape of Good Hope.
Napoleon was defeated in this battle.
These three European events strongly influenced the Romantic era.
What are the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Industrial Revolution?
This king and his wife were executed during the French Revolution.
Who are Louis XVI (16) and Marie Antoinette?
This genre dominated Victorian literature.
What is the novel?
What are some examples of the shift from agriculture to urban society?
The rise in cities, the middle class, and communal efforts, such as concert halls and museums.
Why was India considered the “jewel in the crown”?
What is it was rich in resources?
Oscar Wilde, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Alfred, Lord Tennyson wrote during this writing period.
What is the Victorian period?
Name three movements that gained prominence during the romantic era.
What are idealism, transcendentalism, and progressivism?
Name three examples of social reform involving child labor.
What are workdays limited to 8 days, mandated universal education up to age 10 and children under 9 were banned in some industries?
What elements fueled British colonialism?
What are the desire for new markets, ensuring trade routes, sourcing raw materials, nationalism, and emigration?
This is a policy of government noninterference in the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
After the Congress of Vienna, Britain dominated the seas, but a downturn in manufacturing led to this in Britain.
What is social unrest?
Name two things Romantic poets sought to do in their writing.
What is sought to evoke wonder and used language of the common man?
Romantic literature pulled from a variety of movements, such as idealism, primitivism, transcendentalism and progressivism. Name two ways Romantic literature grew from these movements.
What is romantic literature gained from idealism a focus on the writer’s subjective experience; from transcendentalism and primitivism, nature as teacher and inspiration; and from progressivism, the desire to change society?
The convening of nations after the Napoleonic wars was called this.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
These laws limited grain imports and increased the cost of food when average citizens were already struggling financially.
What are the corn laws?
Why was England called the “workshop of the world”?
What is England led the world in economic productivity and trade?
Name three reasons the railroad is considered the most important invention of the Victorian era.
What are it lowered the price of goods, it brought England wealth and power and it brought society closer together?
Name at least three important innovations of the Victorian Era and explain why they were so important.
The single most important invention of the era was the railroad. In addition to trains, steam power was also harnessed by sailing vessels.
Other innovations of the time included the telegraph and telephone, engineering of sewage and water systems, new surgical techniques, discovery of antiseptics and anesthesia, gas and electric power, and photography.
Name two female poets who won tremendous fame in their own right.
Who are Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti?