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THE NAPOLEONIC WARS:
UK VS FRANCE
Britain feared an invasion, but it was stronger than France from the point of view of navy (Admiral Horatio Nelson)

France soffered a russian invasion and therefore it became weekener than before. This was the main reason of it's defeat in the battle of Waterloo.
The Napoleonic wars brought both France and UK to expensive costs and therefore to interior conflicts and discontent.

Durint the REGENSY ( the last period of the Napoleonic wars ) there were:
-Abolition of slave trade
- The Luddite riots: a turmoil against the inhuman conditions of workers in the factories
-1819 Peterloo massacre by soldiers


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THE BEGINNING OF AN AMERICAN IDENTITY:
During the 18th century the immigration increased -> MELTING POT -> the union of different races,which forms the population of America.
Puritanism: the faith which underlines the importance of human forces to reich his objectives

Pag 269: THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR:
The Civil War persisted for four years and it ended with the success of the Blue Northern troops against the grey Confederates.
-> Abolition of slavery was sanctioned,but there was still a discrimination against black people -> racist movements

Workers organized themselfes in the Trade Unions to defence their rights at work ->AFL:AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR
-IMMIGRATION WESTWARDS -> discovery of gold
---> disappearence of the frontier
---> disappearence of the buffaloes and indians

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THE LIFE OF YOUNG VICTORIA:
Victoria was born in 24th may 1819 by the Duke of Kent and Prince Leopold'ssister,Victorie.
She was the next in the line to the throne,and for this reason her mother started the KENSINGTON SYSTEM in line with which she couldn't stay alone one moment.

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LIFE IN THE VICTORIAN TOWN:
In the middle of the 19th century: The slum districts were characterized by squalor,crime and disease, polluted atmosphere,devasted by cholera epidemies and Tuberculosis.
THE COMMON LODGING HOUSES ACT + LABOURING CLASSES LODGING HOUSES ACT -> PREVENCTION OF SQUALLOR+ MODERNISATION+ NEW SERVICIES:police,water,gas,lighting ecc.