Victorian age

12 important questions on Victorian age

Which people became rich in the victorian age?

People who woned factories, railroads and ships

What about the lowest leven of society, the poor?

They were unemployed or unemployable and this was their own fault because you had to do something with your life.

What about the women in the upper and middle class?

They spent their lives in 'the home' and were called the angel of the house who hold the household together and raised the children
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What about the women in the lower class?

They worked in service or textile industry, children were working in all kinds of branches of industry.

Education act of 1870

A lot of families couldn't pay education for the children so the children had to work until the education act, children until the age of ten should have compulsory education

Why had England a lot of influence in the world?

Because they were the first industrialised country and they had a empire where the sun never sets because they had a lot of colonies in Asia and Africa

Why were there a large amount of novels published by women?

Men and women had more time and started to read novels, because women were always home they wrote a large amount of novels

Why was it dangerous to work in the cotton factories?

1 person had to work with 8 machines, this person could be caught by the leather belt of the machine. A lot of dieases and it was very hot

Why was it dangerous for children?

They had to crawl under the machines to pick up the garbage and a lot of them died, people had to work 13-16 hours a day

What was the biggest invention fo the Victorian age?

The sewer system in london, at first the loo that people flushed was dumped in the theems, diseased could spread easily, it was the beginning of the new industrial revolution

What was the main idea of the victorian age?

Self improvement, you had to improve your life. When you were in poverty it was your own fault

Typical victorian aspects

- self improvement
- workhouse
- poor people starve and lived under bad circumstances
- difference between social classes

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