CHAPTER 8 PRE-LESSON

STANDARDS

10.3 Students analyze the effects of the Industrial

revolution in England, France, Germany, Japan and the

United States

10.3.6 students analyze the emergence of capitalism as a

dominant economic pattern and the responses to it

10.3.4 Trace the evolution of work and labor, the demise

of the slave trade and the effects of immigration, mining,

labor unions and division of labor

8-1 AND 8-2 REFORMS IN BRITAIN

Essential Questions:

How did political reform change Britain, making it

more democratic than it had been before the 19th

century?

What social and economic reforms did British

Parliament pass during the 19th and early 20th

centuries?

BRITAIN IN THE 1800S

It is still the Victorian

Era

It is the middle of the

Industrial Revolution!

We are looking at

political reform

TWO ENGLANDS

What are the two Englands you ask?

The RICH! (Nobles, Industrialists)

The poor, industrial working class

POLITICAL REFORMS

Rotten boroughs made representation unequal

Redistribute seats inThe House of Commons!Represent the PEOPLE!

VICTORIAN VALUES= REFORM

Queen Victoria said the lower classes “earn their

earn their bread and riches so deservedly that

they CANNOT and OUGHT not to be kept back”

This attitude helped bring about greater reform

and equality in Britain.

VIDEO BREAK

By 1900 Britain’s new Parliament allows life to

change for many…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8hnCRrGoE

Things look better than in Dickens era…NOW

THERE ARE NO WORKHOUSES!!!

END OF PART ONE

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tomorrow

8-2

Life is not ALL peaches and cream for Britain.

Parliament shows mercy toward the working class,

but that doesn’t mean they think them equals…note

the mention of 2nd and 3rd class passengers in this

short film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQVQ7ry94lI

TROUBLES IN SOCIETY AND THE ECONOMY

Protective tariffs (taxes for imports) kept trade from growing

Tariffs on imported grains (corn, wheat, barley and oats)

caused high food prices

Slavery still existed, even though the trading of slaves had

been outlaawed

The poor and women still struggle for a voice. Working

conditions border on slavery, women are not free to vote and

property rights were limited

TROUBLE, TROUBLE, TROUBLE!

Ireland was a part of the British empire with little

say in politics or their own economic future

The Irish Potato Famine aka “The Great Hunger”

forces many Irish to emigrate to the United States

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THE END

K. Blair