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SOCIAL REFORM IN GREAT BRITAIN 1815-1914
Crime and Punishment
• Fewer crimes punished by death
• End to public hangings
• Improved prison conditions
Education
Slavery
• Slavery outlawed
in Britain and its
colonies
SOCIAL
REFORM
• Free elementary school for all
children
• State-aided secondary schools
• Some public universities
Rights of Workers
• Trade unions legalized
• Limits on child labor
and work hours
• Improved safety
• Minimum wages
• Accident and
unemployment insurance
• Inspectors enforce laws
Brother Pete’s World History Notepages
11: Growth of Western Democracies (1815-1914)
Section 1: Democratic Reform in Britain
Objectives:
• Describe how reformers worked to change Parliament in the 1800s.
• Understand the values that Queen Victoria represented.
• Summarize how the Liberal and Conservative parties helped bring a new era to British politics.
Vocabulary:
• rotten borough
• electorate
• secret ballot
• Queen Victoria
• Benjamin Disraeli
• William Gladstone
• parliamentary democracy
REFORMING PARLIAMENT
[How was the British Parliament reformed during the early 1800s?]
THE VICTORIAN AGE
[What values did Queen Victoria represent and how did these values relate to economic reform?]
A NEW ERA IN BRITISH POLITICS
[How was Parliament reformed during the late 1800s and early 1900s?]
Brother Pete’s World History Notepages
11: Growth of Western Democracies (1815-1914)
Section 2: Social and Economic Reform in Britain
Objectives:
• Identify the social and economic reforms benefiting British workers and others.
• Describe how British women worked to win the right to vote.
• Understand the causes of conflict between the British and the Irish nationalists.
Vocabulary:
• free trade
• repeal
• abolition movement
• capital offense
• penal colony
A SERIES OF REFORMS
[How did abolition and criminal justice reform reflect Victorian values?]
VICTORIES FOR THE WORKING CLASS
[Describe several social welfare reforms during the 1800s and early 1900s.]
THE STRUGGLE TO WIN VOTES FOR WOMEN
[Why do you think women disagreed about how best to gain suffrage?]
INSTABILITY IN IRELAND
[How did English policies toward Ireland affect the cause of Irish Nationalism?]
• absentee landlord
• home rule
Brother Pete’s World History Notepages
11: Growth of Western Democracies (1815-1914)
Section 3: Division and Democracy in France
Objectives:
• List the domestic and foreign policies of Napoleon III.
• Analyze the impact of the Dreyfus affair and other challenges of the Third Republic.
• Describe the French government’s steps toward reform in the early 1900s.
Vocabulary:
• Napoleon III
• Suez Canal
• provisional
• premier
• coalition
• Dreyfus Affair
• libel
• Zionism
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON III
[What were some of the successes and failures of Napoleon III’s Second Empire?]
CHALLENGES OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC
[What challenges did the Third Republic face during its 70 years in power?]
ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR
[In what ways was the Zionist movement a reaction to the Dreyfus case?]
REFORMS IN FRANCE
[Describe two social reforms during the late 1800s and early 1900s in France.]
Define each of the following (from Sec. 3: Division and Democracy in France) and list 3 or
more ways in which each term affected the people of France (or other areas of the world).
NAPOLEON III:
Events of 1870-1871:
COALITION Government:
The DREYFUS AFFAIR:
Reforms in France:
Brother Pete’s World History Notepages
11: Growth of Western Democracies (1815-1914)
Section 4: Expansion of the United States
Objectives:
• Describe how the territory of the United States changed during the 1800s.
• Summarize how American democracy grew before and after the Civil War.
• Analyze the impact of economic growth and social reform on the United States.
Vocabulary:
• expansionism
• Louisiana Purchase
• Manifest Destiny
• secede
• segregation
TERRITORIAL EXPANSION
[Describe the United States’ physical expansion during the 1800s.]
EXPANDING DEMOCRACY
[How did the abolition and women’s rights movements highlight the limits of American democracy?]
THE CIVIL WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
[What changes did the Civil War bring about for African Americans?]
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIAL REFORM
[Describe the factors that helped the United States become an industrial and agricultural leader.]
• Louisiana Territory
• Spanish Florida
• Oregon Country
• Texas
• Mexican Cession
(California and
southwest lands)
• Alaska
• Hawaii
• Puerto Rico, Guam,
the Philippines
NEW LANDS
NEW PEOPLE
NEW INDUSTRIES
• End of Slavery
• Waves of immigrants • New inventions (Steam
• All men gain the vote • Many Europeans settle locomotive, telegraph,
• Growth of women’s
on Atlantic coast
farm machines)
rights movement
• Many Asians settle on • Transcontinental
• Growth of labor unions the Pacific coast
railroad
• Growth of big business
• United States becomes
a world leader of
industry
NEW FREEDOMS
GROWTH OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE 1800s