victorian problem groups

• Suffragettes - the name given to groups of women using direct action and more aggressive methods to try and win the right to vote.
• Suffragists - the name given to women using peaceful protest to try and win the right to vote.
• In 1829, a politician called Sir Robert Peel introduced the first English police force in order to improve public order in London.
• • Policemen were poorly paid and they would patrol a certain area, known as their beat.
• • Policemen carried truncheons and rattles to raise the alarm.
• • Many people did not trust the new police force. However, over time, the police proved they could reduce crime and so they became more trusted and popular.
• • Transportation: Many criminals were sent to Australia for hard labour. The law allowing this was eventually changed in 1857.
• • Hard labour was a common punishment. Many Victorians believed that having to work very hard would prevent criminals committing crime in the future.
• • The crank and the treadmill: Prisons often made prisoners do pointless tasks such as turn a crank up to 10,000 times a day. Or walk for hours on giant circular tread mills.
• Peasants could make money and provided materials from the domestic system
• merchants had products made for them to sell and get a large profit.
• Luddites - a group of people who went around England between 1811 and 1816 destroying machines
• Why were the chartists unsuccessful?

  • forged signature
  • lack of parliaments support
  • harsh punishments
  • lack of middle class support
• The suffragettes wanted to use direct action as they believed the peaceful methods of the suffragists were ineffective