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HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
History 211: Topic 14
Victorianism and the British Empire
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History 211 First Page I
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Identification
Items
While reading Chapters 24-25-26 of
your textbook, watch for the following items. When you find the item in
Chapters 24-25-26, identify the object or person.
Charles Darwin, Thamas Malthus, Charles Stewart Parnell, John Henry
Newman, Methodists, William Booth, John Stuart Mill, Mary Ann Evans,
Thomas Carlyle, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hughes, Samuel Smiles, Anthony
Trollope, Matthew Arnold, Pre-Raphaelites, John Ruskin, British
Museum, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, W.C. Gilbert, Arthur
Sullivan, Mercantilist
Doctrine, pax Britannica, Barclay's Bank, Earl of Durham, Canadian
Act of 1840, British North America Act, Australian Colonies Act of 1850,
The Boer War, Great Trek, Cecil Rhodes, yitlanders, Sir William
Bentinck, Sir Charles Napier, Suttee, thugee, Thomas Babington Macaulay,
Sepoys, Indian Civil Service, Captian George MacLean, Stamford Raffles,
Ashanti, Royal Niger Company, Suez Canal, General Charles Gordon, United
Empire Trade League, Social Darwinism, cartels, Charles Booth, Trade Union
Congress, Fabian Society, Keir Hardie, Lib-Labs, Henry George,
William Butler Yeats, Kitty O'Shea, Taff Vale Decisions, Education Act of
1902, Herbert Asquith,
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Topics for Study
The following essay
questions should be guides for your reading of Chapters 24-25-26. The
following essay questions will be included on the Third Exam. You
will write two essays on the third exam. You will choose
your exam essays.
1.
What was the "Victorian Compromise?"
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Why is Britain not a Republic?
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What is the role of Methodism in English and American culture?
4. What were the "landmarks" enacted by the British Parliament,
1832-1911, and how did each affect British society?
5. Explain the essentials of the "Irish Problem" in the 19th
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David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson, Chapter 24-25-26 |
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