Victorian age- domestic politics
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Updated: 27 Oct 2019
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Created byFrancesca Pasquali
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Most middle class men - right to votetown workers (men)- right to voterural and mine workersBy the end of the century, all men could votesecret vote secured by lawUnemployed men- right to vote
(universal male suffrage)women over 30- right to voteadult women- right to vote (21)age of adult 181833 act: limit the exploitation of workers
children no more than 48 hrs a week and teens no more the 69 hrs a weekWomen and children are forbidden to work in minestrade unions defend workers' rightsneed for primary schoolingNew Poor Law- Poor Law Amendment Act
forbid the poor to live on the streets and force them in the workhousesFabian society:
-middle class intellectuals
-socialists
-trade unionistsFabian society --> Labour Party
replace the liberal party as the most left.-wing partyWomen's Social and Political Union --> Feminist movement
campaign for women suffrage--> demand rights for womenGreat Exhibition
British -
leading industrial and economic positionPeriods
William IV access to the throne
Begin of an age of important reformsBegin of Queen Victoria (niece of William) reignCharles Dickens
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