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industrial revolution

The industrial revolution led to great prosperity but also gave to great poverty and horrible living condition due to the over crowding of cities that were growing because of industrialization. This revolution gave the push for british and other european countries to dominate world trade. The british had superior naval force which allowed them to build an empire spanning 25% of the worlds land mass. This feat is amazing considering britain is a small island nation but it countrolled large area such as modern day india and australia. This conquering led to a extreme belief that the british is superior to every other race which led to a feeling of nationalism. This change in beliefs led great change in british society. This change can be clearly seen in the the cites of britian because of the industrial revolution woman were thought of as house wives instead but the poor folk had thier whole famlies working in horrible conditions in factories that led to british superiority.

Intresting facts

Death Photography

A common business in the Victorian age was Death photography. Because of the poverty of most people in that era, most people only had one picture taken of them; when they had just died. In many pictures the people in them seem to be sleeping or lying down when I actuality, they are dead.

Prostitution

There are a few studies that say 1 out of every 10 women in the Victorian age were prostitutes. Oddly, the way that we think of prostitution was much differently used in that era. Any women who was living with a man, but not married to him was considered a prostitute.

Common beliefs

Victorian Age – common beliefs

religion played important role
Self fulfillment and consumer cultures influenced religion.
Harry Emerson Fosdick was spokesman for Protestanism in 1920’s
Industrial growth led to rise of consumerism appliances fashion items purchased
most revolutionary product was automobiles- allowed rural people to escape isolation went to urban life: rise of vacation traveling.
Studied God’s word, the bible, his works wanted to prove God’s existence.
Main religion- Roman Catholocism

Child Labor Laws during during the Victorian

In 1870, the report of child laborers in England was 750,000 children working under the age of 15. During the Victorian age, families were very poor with many children born for the use of working to make income. More jobs and technology called for more jobs for people. Children as young as 6 years old were working extremely dangerous factory jobs like; glass factories, textile mills, coal mines, cotton mills, and ship yards. These factories were very dangerous that were closed off and have no air. These children were treated horrible, almost like dogs. The luckier children got jobs as black smiths, lace making, and leather working. They work as long as 90 hours a week. There were many cases of kids dying of heat strokes or of lack of water. The current international child labors law states that children under 16 may not work. Because of the changes in the European society, children are not permitted or needed to work as young as they did in the Victorian age.

Living conditions in England during Victorian age

The living conditions in England during the Victorian era were pretty bad because of the industrial revolution which caused people to change their jobs from farming to working in factories. Although migrating to the city offered better wages, the amount of people that entered the city was massive and caused overcrowding, seasonal employment, and poverty. A major problem caused by accelerated movement of people into cities created and increased the development of horrifying slums and cramped row housing. Due to the slums, cramped housing, and terrible living conditions it wasn’t surprising that diseases like cholera caused by dirty water, consumption (a type of tuberculosis) which killed thousands, and typhus. The living conditions differed from social classes for example the working class they did physical labor in factories with poor conditions leading to negative side effects. Then the middle class had “clean” jobs and the upper class didn’t work at all and lived in luxury.