19TH CENTURY ENGLAND

GOVERNMENT

• Parliament
• Monarchy
• 1830-1837 William IV
• 1837-1901 Victoria

Religion

• Evangelical Christians were influential in society
• Organized religion was more important then than it is today
• However, 50% of the population didn't go to church every Sunday

Work

• Factories grew in numbers
• Women and children worked in unjust conditions
• Inventors improved life for the citizens
• Steam engine and motor, anesthetics, sewing and weaving machines, etc.
• Most people made between £300 and £25

Families

• Many children worked to help prove for the families
• Child labor and abuse was occuring
• Later, children had to be educated before they could work
• Families lived in crowded apartments or tenements
• Everyone in the family worked (mother, father, and children)

Economy

• High Economy
• Entrepreneurs invested in new technologies
• Industrial Revolution began
• Although money increased, the quality of work conditions decreased

diseases

• Consumption - tuberculosis of the lungs
• Typhus - bacterial disease spread by lice
• Cholera - slowing of the blood circulation
• Diseases were easily spread with the closeness of people and dirty conditions

On our honor, we have been academically honest.
Owen Reuther
Madeline Pope
Olivia Ucci
Simone Payette