Changing Attitudes and Values
Chapter #6 - Section #3
A New Social Order Arises
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The Industrial Revolution slowly changed the social
order in the Western World.
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For centuries, the two main classes were nobles and
peasants and their relationship to the land.
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With the spread of industry, a more complex social
structure emerged.
Three Social Classes Emerge
Upper Class
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Included rich business families.
Wealthy entrepreneurs married into aristocratic families, gaining
the status of noble titles.
Middle Class
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Rising mid-level business people and professionals such as
doctors and scientists.
Comfortable incomes allowed for a wide range of material goods.
Lower-middle class = teachers, office workers struggled to keep
up with their “betters”
Lower Class
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30% of the population were made up of workers and peasants
Middle-Class Tastes and Values
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The Middle-Class developed its own way of life.
A strict code of etiquette governed social behavior.
- how to dress for every occasion
- how to give a dinner party
- how to pay a social call
- when to write letters
- how long to mourn for dead relatives
- parents strictly supervised their children
- children were to be”seen but not heard”
- social middle-class household was expected to
have at least a cook and a housemaid.
The Ideal Home
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By the late 1800s, most middle class families
consisted of the husband going to work and the wife
staying at home.
The cult of domesticity idealized women and the
home. “Home sweet Home” sayings became popular.
The ideal woman was seen as a tender, selfsacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her
children and a peaceful refuge for her husband to
escape from the hardships of the working world.
Lower class women worked in low paying garment
factories and were responsible for taking care of all
household duties.
Women’s Suffrage
Sojourner Truth
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women Work for Rights
Some individual women and women’s groups protested
restrictions on women.
 They sought a broad range of rights, such as fariness in
marriage, divorce and property laws.
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Temperance Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s suffrage
Sojourner Truth
Growth of Public Education
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Read pg 213
Answer the following:
What basic education did schools teach by
the late 1800s?
What differences in education did boys and
girls each have?
Why had colleges and universities changed
their curriculum by the late 1800s?
Science Takes New Direction
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Researchers advanced startling theories about the natural
world. Their new ideas challenged long-held beliefs.
Atomic Theory develops
1. John Dalton…
2. Atoms…
3. Dmitri Mendeleyev…
Debating the Earth’s age
1. Charles Lyell…
2. The Earth…
3. Neanderthal bones…
Charles Darwin’s Theory of
Natural Selection
1. Charles Darwin argued…
2. Natural Selection theory…
3. “Survival of the Fittest”…
Social Darwinism
And Racism
1. Social Darwinism applied…
2. Industrial tycoons…
3. Racism…