19TH CENTURY ENGLAND

Main Aspects

• Industrial Revolution
• Social Classes
• Rulers
• Religion
• Victorian Era

Industrial Revolution

• created a demand for women and child labor
• textile industry grew
• machines were built to improve efficiency
• factories were powered by steam engines

social classes

• aristorcrats
• the middle class
• the lower class

ARISTOCRATS

• The Royal Family
• Spiritual Lords
• Temporal Lords
• Great Officers of the State
• ex) baronets, knights, country gentlemen

The middle class

• THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS
• ex) factory owners, large scale businessmen,
• bankers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, cleagymen
• THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS
• ex) shopkeepers, merchants, civil servants

the lower class

• WORKING CLASS
• ex) labor, factory workers, seamstresses
• minors, and sweapers
• THE POOR

Rulers of this time

• King George III 1760-1820
• King George IV 1820-1830
• King William IV 1830-1837
• Queen Victoria 1837-1901

Religion

• Parliament no longer acted exclusively for the Catholic Church
• Athiests were allowed to be elected in Parliment
• but not serve because they refused to take the oath
• that states "Swear by God"
• The Oaths Act eventually allowed anyone to serve

Victorian Era

• period of time when Queen Victoria ruled
• from June 20 1837-January 22 1901
• literature was an important aspect
• Ex) Charles Dickens "Great Expectations"