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 CAN AD A’S F IRST RAILWAY. W HAT WAS IT S ROUTE?

Champlain Saint Lawrence Railroad

Prairie to St. Jean sur Richelieu

(only one more…finally!)

1 9 . H O W W E R E V I C T O R I A N N E W S PA P E R S D I F F E R E N T T H A N

N E W S PA P E R S T O D AY ?

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.