Queen Victoria S Empire Viewing Guide

Queen Victoria’s Empire viewing guide

1. What more dilemma were the English faced with as they began to harness the awesome power of the Industrial Revolution?

2. When was the first public railway completed? What two cities did it link?

3. At what age did Queen Victoria become queen? What was the state of the monarchy she inherited?

4. Who did Queen Victoria marry? What did Victoria think of him? What was Parliament’s reaction?

5. What job did Albert eventually find himself doing (after blotting Victoria’s signatures)? What were his opinions on the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution?

6. How did the inventions of Isambard Kingdom Brunel radically change the British Empire?

7. What problem—due to overpopulation—did Britain run into in the mid-1840s? Why did this occur? What happened in Ireland as a result? 8. Where did most of the Irish go as a result of the Potato Famine? What did Parliament do to stop it?

9. A famous political rivalry came out of the Corn Laws of the 1840s. Who was involved and what political parties and sides of the political spectrum did they represent? What side was the Queen on?

10. What happened all across Europe in 1848? What happened in London? What did all this convince Albert had to be done to ensure the continuation of the British monarchy?

11. Albert (and later Victoria and all of England) were major proponents of ______trade.