1. Friday, November 2
What new economic philosophy believed that there should be no private property and everything should be owned by the public?
What new economic philosophy believed that the factors of production (materials, factories, goods, etc.) should be owned by the public?

2. Age of Democracy and Progress

3. Democratic Reform and Activism in Great Britain
Historically Britain was a constitutional monarchy since the 1600’s
not a true democracy – had to be male and a landowner to vote
excluded most men and all women
the upper classes ran the government
The Reform Bill of 1832
gave the right to vote to wealthy middle class
gave cities more representation and eliminated rotten boroughs

4. Workers began to demand suffrage
Chartist movement called for the vote to be open to all men, annual elections of Parliament, a secret ballot, and pay for MPs
The Victorian Age
Queen Victoria ruled for 64 years, one of the longest reigns in history
but just a symbolic ruler; Parliament and the prime minister really run the country

5. Women Demand the Vote Organization and Resistance
in USA – Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked for women’s suffrage
in Great Britain – Emmeline Pankhurst
WSPU – Women’s Social and Political Union
results were very gradual – women in both countries don’t get the vote until after World War I
USA – 19th Amendment in 1920

6. WSPU – Women’s Social and Political Union
Sister Suffragette

7. Silent Suffragettes – Washington, D.C.
Suffrage March in U.K.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Silent Suffragettes – Washington, D.C.

8. Self-Rule for British Colonies
By the end of the 19th century, Great Britain had allowed some of its colonies the right of self-rule
this meant the colonies had the right to govern themselves, but still remained as part of the British Empire
Despite giving political freedom to some of the colonies, Britain continued to control the world’s largest empire until the 1960s & 1970s.

9. Progress in the 19th Century
During the late 19th century, the Industrial Revolution and growing industries helped lead to even greater advances in technology
This in turn led to a new age of technology, mass culture, and scientific discovery

10. Thomas Edison’s Lightbulb
Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone

11. Henry Ford’s Model T
Wright brothers – First airplane

12. Vaudeville – music variety shows (think 19th century America’s Got Talent)
Motion Pictures

13. Louis Pasteur discovering vaccines
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium and polonium (radioactivity)