key features.

• Growth of towns

  People moved from the countryside to towns to find work in new factories

  Over 80% were living in towns by 1901 census
• Back to back houses

  Lots of poor quality houses were built to rent out to new workers

  Back to back court houses were the worst sort
• New factories and coal mines

  People stopped working at home

  They worked in factories

  Coal mines boomed as coal was needed for new steam engines
• New ideas and scientific discoveries

  Religion declined

  1861 Germ Theory – germs discovered

  The Theory of Evolution became accepted
• New farming techniques

  Enclosure, crop rotation and new

  equipment meant more food could

  be grown by fewer people

  This removed the fear of famine
• Democracy

  More men were given the right to

  vote in 1832, 1867 and 1884

  Governments took notice of the

  needs of poorer people

  Disraeli was a reforming prime

  minister
• New transport like canals and trains

  Railways allowed people and goods

  to move quickly

  Steam ships allowed people and

  goods to move around the British

  Empire
• Society changed

  Middle class grew

  Working class were mostly ignored

  until their voting power grew

  1870 Forster’s Education Act made

  school compulsory for children under

  12