VICTORIAN ERA QUESTIONS

REIGN OF QUEEN VICTORIA (PGS 56-65) Immigrants: Rich and Poor 1. Where were most immigrants to Canada coming from?  Ireland and Scotland (mostly poor and uneducated)

2. What hardship did immigrants often face?  Poor land-rocky  Most immigrants were Catholic and were therefore discriminated against (Catholics vs. Protestant)  Could only get manual jobs- low pay

NATIVE PEOPLES 4. What does assimilate mean?  To join the majority group and give up the traditions of one’s own group

VICTORIAN ATTITUDES AND VALUES 5. What are the characteristics of Victorian Society?  Confident, believed in progress, religious  Moral and well mannered  Optimistic  Sense of superiority, prude, obsessed with social status

FASHION AND DECOR 6. What was Victorian style like?  Fashion: more formal, extravagant, no tans!!!  Corsets  Décor: cluttered and overdone, heavy fabrics

7. What contradictions existed in Victorian society?  People considered themselves moral and religious, yet were extremely materialistic.  The Upper Classes looked down on the Lower Classes.

A NEW AGE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE 8. What new medical discoveries were during the Victorian Era?  Aspirin, antibiotics  Antiseptics, x-rays, vitamins  Hormones, vaccinations

9. What diseases were common in Victorian society?  Smallpox, Cholera, typhoid fever  Influenza, tuberculosis  Scarlet fever, anthrax, rabies

10. How were diseases commonly spread?  Contaminated water  Doctors would often introduce germs into a patient’s body  unsanitary conditions in operating room

11. WHAT ADVANCES WERE MADE IN TREATING THESE DISEASES?  Louis Pasteur- discovered bacilli: cause of many diseases  Also discovered the cause of anthrax, cholera and rabies  Vaccinated people and animals against diseases

12. WHO WAS EMILY STOWE? WHAT DIFFICULTIES DID SHE FACE AND SURMOUNT?  One of the first female doctors in the British Empire  No Canadian medical school would accept her so she had to attend university in US  Had to practice illegally

13. WHO WAS LOUIS PASTEUR? WHAT KIND OF LIFE DID HE LIVE?  Louis Pasteur discovered bacilli – the cause of many diseases  Chose to live a simple and generous life instead of becoming wealthy from his inventions

LEISURE AND TRAVEL (PGS 65-72) 14. List some popular amusements in Victorian times  City: parties, concerts, fairs, circuses, shows  Parlor games, blood sports  Books, swimming for pleasure  Countryside: barn, raisings, quilting bees, weddings

15. What sort of things were features at medicine shows?  New inventions  Patent medicines-cures

16. WHAT WAS THE NEW FORM OF TRANS-ATLANTIC TRAVEL? HOW LONG DID THE JOURNEY TAKE?  Steamship- reduced time of crossing (less than two weeks)

17. WHAT DOES INFRASTRUCTURE MEAN?  Community systems that make travel, communication and business easier.

18. NAME CANADA’S FIRST RAILWAY. WHAT WAS ITS ROUTE?  Champlain Saint Lawrence Railroad  Prairie to St. Jean sur Richelieu (only one more…finally!)

19. HOW WERE VICTORIAN NEWSPAPERS DIFFERENT THAN NEWSPAPERS TODAY?  No professional sports section  No comics  No horoscopes, advice  Had to be practical  Scientific news

HOMEWORK  List five influences that the Victorians had on our society today.