Question 7: Victorian Era
Plan:
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901)
Her reign as the Queen lasted 63 years and seven months, longer than that of any other British monarch before her.
Though Victoria ascended the throne at a time when the United Kingdom was already an established constitutional monarchy.
The Victorian era represented the height of the Industrial Revolution
A period of significant social, economic, and technological progress in the United Kingdom.
A great expansion of the British Empire.
Victoria, who was of almost entirely German descent, was the last British monarch of the House of Hanover
Succession. Whig government
Victoria's principal adviser was her uncle King Leopold I of Belgium.
The Queen married her first cousin, Prince Albert.
Attempts to assassinate.
Years of Isolation
Reforms
Victorian’s reign is the climax of Britain’s imperial ambitions.
People’s Charter -Voting right for adult citizens.
She rejected property restrictions for MPs.
Acc. to the Poor Law there were introduced workhouses.
The Industrial Revolution. A Riot of Luddites.
A period of Napoleonic wars: Admiral Nelson won a famous victory at Trafalgar.
The Corn Law.
Education Acts.
Constitutional monarchy
Government of India
Victorian Attitudes
"The grandmother of Europe"
Question 8: Franco-British Relations
Plan:
Celts – Romans common enemy.
1. Roman era
Julius Caesar invasion. Roman rule
2.Norman conquest
3.High Medieval era
Plantagenet dynasty, which was based in its Angevin Empire, half of France was under Angevin control as well as all of England. However, almost all of the Angevin empire was lost to Philip II of France under Richard the Lionheart, John and Henry III of England. This finally gave the English a separate identity as an Anglo-Saxon people under a Francophone, but not French, crown.
4.The Hundred Years War
5.The early modern period
Wars. Separation of nations, cultures. Catholicism vs Protestantism (Henry VIII)
6.Universal monarchy
7. Formation of Great Britain
The newly united Britain fought France in the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713), and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)
8.Overseas expansion
9. Colonization of North America
10. American War of Independence
11.The French Revolution
12.The Napoleonic Wars
13 Treaties of Versailles. WWI & WWII
14. UN
Question 9: Geography of the uk
Plan:
Country
Great Britain,
the northeastern part of the island of Ireland,
and many small islands.
Borders
Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border.
the UK is surrounded by
the Atlantic Ocean,
the North Sea,
the English Channel
the Irish Sea
The largest island, Great Britain, is linked to France by the Channel Tunnel.
union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland (1707) .
union with the Kingdom of Ireland (1801)
The UK has fourteen overseas territories, all remnants of the British Empire
By mid-2008, population was estimated to have grown to 61,383,000, the third largest in the European Union, the twenty-first largest in the world.
S
ymbols
Union Flag (Union Jack).
God Save the King
Britannia
Lion
Bulldog
Geography of the UK