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1 CHAPTER 22 OVEVIEW NOTES

2 NEW TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRY:
Steel (an alloy of iron and carbon) Chemicals: aspirin, perfumes, soaps, fertilizers; and dynamite, invented by Alfred Nobel, who, because of his guilt for how his invention became to be used, established world peace prizes for worthy recipients Electricity Interchangeable parts Assembly line

3 CITY LIFE: Population explosion Germ theory > antiseptics, immunizations, pasteurization, sterilization, hospitals: EXAMPLES: Joseph Lister who introduced antiseptics; Louis Pasteur, a microbiologist, who invented a method for killing bacteria in milk; Florence Nightingale who began the first nursing school in Britain after witnessing first hand the unsanitary methods used on war veterans of the Crimean War

4 Urban renewal > sidewalks, sewers, skyscrapers, entertainment centers NEW COMMUNICATION: Telegraph Telephone Radio

5 NEW TRANSPORTATION: Steamships Railroads Automobiles Airplanes

6 NEW ATTITUDES AND VALUES:
Suburban middle-class dominance Cult of domesticity > idealization that “a woman’s place is in the home” Women’s suffrage > 1920 right to vote realized in 19th Amendment to U.S. Constitution Temperance movement to ban use of alcohol Public education > universities and colleges

7 Social Darwinism > idea introduced by Charles
Darwin who claimed “survival of the fittest” > led to racism Social gospel > Christian social service

8 NEW CULTURAL IDEOLOGIES:
Romanticism – literary & artistic movement to glorify nature; sought to excite strong emotions

9 Realism – movement that focused on the harsh
side of life in cities and villages, encouraging improvement

10 Impressionism – movement to achieve a fresh
view of familiar objects, including the art of photography


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