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5.9 Society & Indust
AP World History 5.9 Society and the Industrial Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During this age, what classes were developing? | New social classes, including the middle class and the industrial working class, developed. |
| What book illustrated the working class during this time? | Working class Dickens’ Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist 1968 trailer |
| How did the middle class get their money during this era? | Middle class: earned money v. inherited or landed rich |
| What roles did working class women and children fill? | women and often children in working class families typically held wage-earning jobs to supplement their families’ income, |
| What roles did women and children fill in middle class households? | middle-class women who did not have the same economic demands to satisfy were increasingly limited to roles in the household or roles focused on child development. |
| What type of jobs did working class women hold? | Working class women: e.g., Sadie Frowne, did okay until they married, many as domestic servants |
| What types of jobs did middle class women hold? | Middle class women: limited? education, some did work in stores, nursing |
| Who was Jane Austen? | Jane Austen: her father was church rector, some of her characters are wealthy Emma (tries to play match-maker 1996 trailer); others more moderate status Pride and Prejudice (5 daughters 2005 trailer) |
| What were the results of rapid urbanization? | The rapid urbanization that accompanied global capitalism at times led to a variety of challenges, including pollution, poverty, increased crime, public health crises, housing shortages, and insufficient infrastructure to accommodate urban growth. |
| What enabled employers to pay 11 cents/hour and require LONG work weeks? | High immigration let employers pay 11 cents/hour and require workers to labor 60-80 hour weeks |
| Where did people live if they were destitute? | Poor houses/workhouse: where people went who were destitute |
| Where did some working families live to get by? | Crammed into tenements (define) with high rent, bad conditions |
| What did people use for light and warmth at this time? | Electricity not until late in 19th century, what did they use before? |
| What were the general utilities and the health issues with it? | Running water; was it clean? what about sewage? |
| Who were the law enforcement entities? | First police in US cities, traditionally sheriff; UK bobbies Sir Robert Peel helped create in London 1829; Scotland Yard (HQ from its location in London), Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) |
| What determined where people would work and live? | Walking city: distance from where one lived to work; had to be short until public transportation |
| How did epidemics impact the European population? | Epidemics: at least 5 global cholera outbreaks (bacteria); despite availability of vaccine for smallpox (virus), 400,000 Europeans died annually, |
| What epidemics hit Ireland, UK and America? | typhus (bacteria) hit Ireland particularly hard and migrated to UK and N America (coffin ships); numerous yellow fever outbreaks (virus) |
| How were China and India impacted by epidemics? | plague hit China and India in late 19th c. killing 12 million |
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