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CW6 – Vocab p520

New Social Order

• Used to be just nobles and peasants (haves/have nots)

• New more complex social structure

Cult of Domesticity

• Earlier women had worked and helped with business

• Now men earned enough for women to stay home and raise children, direct servants and do womanly activities.

• “home sweet home”

Women’s Rights

• Temperance movement – limit or ban alcohol (breaking homes)

• Women organized

Suffrage• Women fought to end slavery, realized

their lives weren’t much better

• Soon looked to get women’s suffrage (right to vote)

1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

2. Sojourner Truth

Public Education

• Soon required children to be educated

• Colleges and universities expand

Charles Darwin

• He published On the Origin of Species

• It outlined:1. Evolution2. Natural selection

• People were outraged (bible is truth)

• Social Darwinism – “survival of the fittest” created disdain and racism.

Romanticism

• Imagination, freedom and emotion1. William Wordsworth – poet, Lyrical Ballads2. Lord Byron – heroic novels3. Victor Hugo – 3 Musketeers, Hunchback, Les Mis4. Beethoven – wrote man hype symphonies

Realism

• Represent the world as it was, not romantic

• Charles Dickens – wrote Oliver Twist, Tale of Two Cities

Visual Arts

• Louis Daguerre – produced successful photography, becomes the new history

• Impressionism – scenes that make and impression1. Monet

2. Van Gogh