1. The Victorian Era Do Now: What is suffrage?
12/17/08 – Today’s Objectives:
Explore the social changes of the Victorian Era
Analyze the women’s suffrage movement
The Victorian Era
Do Now:
What is suffrage?
Who’s still left out of the chart by the 1880s?

2. Queen Victoria Reigned from 1837-1901 – 64 yrs
The Industrial Revolution started during her reign
Britain became the world leader in manufacturing
This began trade with and conquest of Asian and African Countries
Growth of middle and working classes
Victorian Ideals
service
thrift
honesty
hard work
respectability

3. Reforming Politics Great Reform Act The Chartist Movement
Redistributed seats in the House of Commons giving more representation to large towns and cities
Allowed all landowning men to vote
The Chartist Movement
Demanded universal male suffrage
Asked for voting by secret ballot

4. Reforming Society Women allowed to attend college
Reduction of work day for women and children
Some taxes on imports were repealed
supported the ideas of a laissez-faire government
created free trade which helped the consumer
Banned slavery in Great Britain and all its colonies
Still imported cotton from the United States
Reduced punishment for petty crimes
Crimes such as shoplifting, sheep stealing, and impersonating an army veteran were punishable by death
Petty criminals were often transported to the penal colonies of Australia and New Zealand

5. Limits on Reform - Women were divided on how to achieve suffrage
The Irish Question
Fight for home rule
Reforms were made, but Ireland remained under English Rule
Women’s Suffrage
- Women were divided on how to achieve suffrage
- Queen Victoria called the suffrage struggle “mad, wicked folly.”

6. Wrap-Up
What rights do women enjoy today because of Emmeline Pankhurst?
How do you think you can use information from today’s lesson in your newspaper?

7. Corn Laws High tariffs placed on corn Discouraged food imports
Kept food prices high
Suspended in 1846 to help potato famine in Ireland

8. Imperialism Ethnocentrism Crimean War
Western white civilization superior to rest of world
Crimean War
Britain, Ottoman Turkey, France, and southern Russia vs. Russia to stop Russian advancement/growth

9. Philosophy Darwin Materialism Survival of the fittest
Natural Selection
Evolution
Materialism

10. Literature Realism: Naturalism: Ordinary people with everyday problems
Pleased middle class
Against romanticism
Naturalism:
Blatantly real to induce social reform
Human suffering

11. Oscar Wilde Wit and Satire Plays – The Importance of Being Earnest
Fled England to avoid arrest for being homosexual
Emphasized “Art for art’s sake”

12. Famous Wilde Quotes
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything." -- “A Woman of No Importance”
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature." -- “The Decay of Lying”
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast." -- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man." -- “A Woman of No Importance”
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."