A Christmas Carol (Context)

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What did the industrial reveloution lead to?
More people working in manufacturing.
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What happened to British cities in the 19th century?
They became industrialised and started to manufacture goods.
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What made Dickens interested in the plight of poor people?
Dickens was forced into a workhouse after his father was in debt
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Who was Thomas Mathus?
An economist
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What was Thomas Malthus' theory?
Poverty was inevitable, food supplies coundn't handle the overcrowed population
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What are workhouses?
A place for unemployed people to get food and shelter
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What did the industrial reveloution do between the rich an poor?
Create a much wider gap
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What is an Philanthropist?
A business person who tries to help enhance their workers lives
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Why did Dickens think education was important?
It could help decrease crime, diseases and poverty.
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What schools did Dicken support?
Ragged schools
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What is Sabbatarianism?
Spending Sundays going to Church and resting
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Victorian society was very secular, True or False?
False
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