The Victorian age

What important social reforms occurred in the 1830s?

• First Reform Act
• Factory Act
• Poor Law Amendment Act
• All of the above

When did Queen Victoria come to the throne?

• 1840
• 1837
• 1867
• 1851

Who organised the Great Exhibition in 1851?

• Charles Dickens
• Queen Victoria
• Prince Albert
• Sir Robert Peel

What impact did railways have on people's lives?

• Increased trade
• Transformed the landscape
• Improved transportation
• All of the above

What did the Chartist movement demand?

• Abolition of the Corn Laws
• Secret ballot
• More voting rights
• Workhouses for the poor

What was the significance of the Crimean War?

• Led to Florence Nightingale's nursing organisation
• British troops put down Indian Mutiny
• First war with direct journalistic coverage
• All of the above

What did Charles Darwin's theory of evolution propose?

• Progress through social reform
• Revolutionary theory of evolution
• Natural selection
• All of the above

What new philosophies and religious movements emerged during the Victorian Age?

• Utilitarianism
• Oxford Movement
• Evangelicalism
• All of the above

What was Britain's involvement in the opium wars?

• To protect the opium trade
• To control Hong Kong
• To gain access to Chinese ports
• All of the above

What were the consequences of the potato famine in Ireland?

• Deaths
• Mass emigration to America
• Abolition of the Corn Laws
• All of the above