Reign of Queen Victoria pgs 5665 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 ID: 416966
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Victorian Era Questions Slide2
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)Slide3
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 paySlide4
Native Peoples
4. What does assimilate mean?
To join the majority group and give up the traditions of one’s own groupSlide5
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 statusSlide6
Fashion and Decor
6. What was Victorian style like?
Fashion: more formal, extravagant, no tans!!!
Corsets
Décor: cluttered and overdone, heavy fabricsSlide7
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.
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A new Age of Science and Medicine
8. What new medical discoveries were during the Victorian Era?
Aspirin, antibiotics
Antiseptics, x-rays, vitamins
Hormones, vaccinationsSlide9
9. What diseases were common in Victorian society?
Smallpox, Cholera, typhoid fever
Influenza, tuberculosis
Scarlet fever, anthrax, rabiesSlide10
10. How were diseases commonly spread?
Contaminated water
Doctors would often introduce germs into a patient’s body
unsanitary conditions in operating roomSlide11
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 diseasesSlide12
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 illegallySlide13
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 inventionsSlide14
Leisure and travel
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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, weddingsSlide15
15. What sort of things were features at medicine shows?
New inventions
Patent medicines-curesSlide16
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)Slide17
17. What
does infrastructure
mean?
Community systems that make travel,
communication and business easier.Slide18
18. Name Canada’s first railway. What was its route?
Champlain Saint Lawrence Railroad
Prairie to St. Jean
sur
Richelieu
(
only one more…finally!)Slide19
19. How were Victorian Newspapers different than newspapers today?
No professional sports section
No comics
No horoscopes, advice
Had to be practical
Scientific newsSlide20
Homework
List five influences that the Victorians had on our society today.