Law & Politics
The movement that aimed to expand political rights to the working class
What is Chartism?
The name of the doctrine that saw men and women as different, and therefore gave them different roles in Victorian society
What is the doctrine of separate spheres?
The state religion in England
What is the Anglican Church?
A medical theory developed by Louis Pasteur
What is germ theory?
The British monarch during the Victorian period
Who is Queen Victoria?
The name of the conservative party in Victorian Britain
Who were the Tories?
The name of the movement that transformed the nature of labour in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
What is the industrial revolution?
The movement involving séances and communication with the dead
What is Spiritualism?
This was the most educated and respected of the various medical groups in Victorian Britain
Developed the theory of evolution by natural selection
Who is Charles Darwin?
The name of Queen Victoria's husband
Who is Prince Albert?
The name given to the poorer parts of Victorian cities such as London, where the poor lived
What were the slums?
The name for the theory that religion was in decline in Victorian Britain
A medical group in Victorian Britain infamous for selling dubious medical products and remedies
What are quacks?
Wrote a book called Natural Theology, known especially for comparing God to a clockmaker.
Who is William Paley?
The word used for institutions in which it was illegal to stage mainstream plays (e.g., Shakespeare) before 1843
What is illegitimate theatre?
The name of the fictional character created to mock black people
What is Jim Crow?
The movement committed to recovering the Catholic roots of the English Church
What is the Oxford Movement?
As the original form of hypnotism, and named after its German founder, this treatment method served as a form of anaesthetic
What is Mesmerism?
Developed a theory of evolution before Darwin, frequently illustrated with reference to giraffes.
Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?
The word given to the legal process (and Parliamentary Act) which, in 1829, allowed Catholics to vote and participate in the political process
What is Catholic Emancipation?
This major Victorian institution got its start in the form of casual gatherings called "free-and-easies"
What is the music hall?
The fastest growing Protestant denomination in Victorian Britain
What is the Methodist movement?
The first chemical compound to be widely used as an anaethetic
What is ether?
The novelist and politician who argued that England was divided between two nations, the rich and the poor
Who is Benjamin Disraeli?