How Did Queen Victoria Change The World?

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From her youth, Queen Victoria was in a position of power to change the world. As a young child she grew up with her widowed mother. When Victoria was one year old her father died of pneumonia(“Edward, Duke of Kent”). At age 18 she inherited the throne because of the lack of heirs. The role of Queen looked like a daunting task, but being an ambitious girl, she set out to make astronomical changes. She declared, “We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.” (Churchill 170) Borders spread, relationships changed, and the economy developed rapidly. The only problem is that she did not institute these changes herself. It was the people around her that were of lower status that had changed the world like Harold …show more content…

Queen Victoria’s inherited a vast empire. Its colonies had been established in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India. It also included small parts of South America and Africa. The sun never set on the British empire. At this time, Queen Victoria was head of nearly a quarter of the world’s people(“The British Empire”). Many people wonder why Queen Victoria needed to colonize. Britain was an island country and an island has only a certain amount of resources on it. Britain needed to expand its borders beyond the boundaries of the island. Further, the island only had so many ports to transport goods. In order to get more room for goods to be sold and bought land had to be obtained to gain profit. But the British Empire already had colonies. Why did Queen Victoria need to colonize more? During this time period the Industrial Revolution was occurring and it needed new resources. So, in order to gain these new resources it needed to colonize more. The only act that Queen Victoria signed in the building of colonization was the British North America Acts which formed Canada. So, in short, Queen Victoria did not make big contributions to the colonization of the British Empire because she had already inherited the largest empire in the

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