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

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6. How did the Industrial Revolution change life
in the cities?
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• Crime rates increased
• Cramped tenements in overcrowded neighborhoods
  (slums)
• Alcoholism increased
• Disease spread quickly
• Pollution

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• 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

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7. How did the Industrial Revolution change the
old social order and long-held traditions in the
Western World?
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• Three distinct social classes emerged upper,
  middle working
• Middle class tastes and values became a measuring
  stick for the working class
• Cult of domesticity

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• Women sought a political voice, the right to
  vote, the chance to attend universities
• Temperance movement
• Womens suffrage

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• Late 1800s improvements to public education
  more children attended school, teacher training
  schools were set up
• Colleges universities expanded as well

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• Scientists shook long-held religious beliefs

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• Social Darwinism

• Social Gospel

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8. What artistic movements emerged in reaction
to the Industrial Revolution?
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Romanticism

• Reaction to the Enlightenment
• Writers combined history, legend, folklore
• Music art emphasized feelings

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Realism

• Represent the world as it was, not idealistic
• Often portrayed the poor and their struggles

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Impressionism

• The first impression of a scene from the
  viewers perspective