6. How did the Industrial Revolution change life in the cities?

6. How did the Industrial Revolution

change life in the cities?

Crime rates increased

Cramped tenements in overcrowded neighborhoods (slums)

Alcoholism increased

Disease spread quickly

Pollution

City planners created parks, boulevards, public buildings

Safety improved with street lights, police forces and expanded fire protection

Sewage systems cut death rates

Trolley lines allowed people to move further from their work

7. How did the Industrial Revolution change the old social order and long-held traditions in

the Western World?

• Three distinct social classes emerged – upper, middle & working

• Middle class tastes and values became a measuring stick for the working class

• “Cult of domesticity”

• Women sought a political voice, the right to vote, the chance to attend universities– Temperance

movement–Women’s suffrage

• Late 1800s – improvements to public education – more children attended school, teacher training schools were set up

• Colleges & universities expanded as well

• Scientists shook long-held religious beliefs

Social Darwinism Social Gospel

8. What artistic movements emerged in reaction to the

Industrial Revolution?

Romanticism• Reaction to the

Enlightenment• Writers = combined

history, legend, folklore

• Music & art – emphasized feelings

Realism• Represent the

world as it was, not idealistic

• Often portrayed the poor and their struggles

Impressionism• The first

“impression” of a scene from the viewer’s perspective