1. Changing Attitudes and Values
Chapter #6 - Section #3

2. A New Social Order Arises
The Industrial Revolution slowly changed the social order in the Western World.
For centuries, the two main classes were nobles and peasants and their relationship to the land.
With the spread of industry, a more complex social structure emerged.

3. Three Social Classes Emerge
Upper Class
Included rich business families.
Wealthy entrepreneurs married into aristocratic families, gaining the status of noble titles.
Middle Class
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
30% of the population were made up of workers and peasants

4. Middle-Class Tastes and Values
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.

5. The Ideal Home
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, self-sacrificing 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.

6. Women’s Suffrage
Sojourner Truth Elizabeth Cady Stanton

7. 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.
Temperance Movement
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Women’s suffrage
Sojourner Truth

8. Growth of Public Education
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?

9. Science Takes New Direction
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…