IR: Changing Attitudes and
Values
Unit 3 Lesson 7
Chapter 9.3
Big Idea: The I.R. changed social order in the
western world, and new ideas challenging longheld traditions.
Objectives
 Review
changes to cities
 Closely read a passage on the change
in values and apply its concepts into a
skit
 Review/discuss the changes in vaules
Warm Up
 What
was life like in the cities?
 Improvements?
 Anesthesia
& antiseptics in hospitals
 Urban renewal
 Sidewalks, sewers, skyscrapers
 Mutual-aid societies
 Better S.O.L.
A New Social Order
 Spread
of industry= complex social
structure
 Upper
Class: Industrial/business families &
old nobility

Top jobs in govt & military
 Middle
Class: Midlevel business ppl
&professionals-doctors, scientist, lawyers
 Lower Middle Class: teachers, office
workers, shopkeepers, and clerks
 Lowers class: workers and peasants
Activity
 You
will divided into groups
 You need to read your assigned section
(~5-10minutes)
 Then create a skit or write a story about
your topic (~20minutes)
 Share with the class
Middle Class Values

Large house;
tasteful clothing;
children “seen but
not hear”
 Men court the bride

Marriage contracts to
protect women
property rights

Men- work in office
or shop
 Women- raise
children, direct
servants, religious
or charitable service
 Cult of domesticity
Rights of Women

Temperance
movement

USA- Elizabeth
Cady Stanton &
Susan B. Anthony
Women’s Rights

Women’s suffrage

Seneca Falls (1848)
Growth of Public Education

Taught 3 Rs


Reading, writing, and
‘rthmetic
Public edu




Rural areas- not
during season
Expand secondary
schools
Increase colleges and
Uni
Women’s colleges
New Directions in Science

Atomic Theory- John
Dalton

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
Principles of GeologyCharles Lyell


Different atoms combine
Dmitri Mendeleyev* atomic
table
Earth formed over millions
of years
Origins of life on earth

Neanderthals
Darwin Challenge
 On
Origins of the
Species
 Evolution
 Natural
selection
 “survival
of the
fittest”
 Social
Darwinism
 Applied
to
economics
 Encouraged racism
Closure
 How
did attitudes and values change
during the late 1800s?
Religion in Urban Age
 Religious
centers
place of refugee
 Leaders were
influential
 Social gospelurged Christians
to social service
 Salvation
Army