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‘A Court for King Cholera’ - scene typical of the crowded, unsanitary conditions in London slums, Punch cartoon, 1852.
5.9 J. SIO
Explain how industrialization caused a change in existing social hierarchies and standards of living.
“Death’s Dispensary”: This caricature published during the London cholera epidemic of 1866.
Historical Development
Historical Development
New social classes, including the middle class and the industrial working class, developed. While women and often children in working-class families typically held wage-earning jobs to supplement their families’ income, middle-class women who did not have the same economic demands to satisfy were increasingly limited to roles in the household or roles focused on child development. The rapid urbanization that accompanied global capitalism at times led to a variety of challenges, including pollution, poverty, increased crime, public health crises, housing shortages, and insufficient infrastructure to accommodate urban growth.
KEY WORDS:
KEY WORDS:
Tenements / Slums
Working Class
White-collar
Mass production
Urbanization
Cholera
IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT:
Seneca Falls Convention
SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT:
Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention in the United States. Held in July 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the meeting launched the women's suffrage movement, which more than seven decades later ensured women the right to vote.
The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. As women, Mott and Stanton were barred from the convention floor, and the common indignation that this aroused in both of them was the impetus for their founding of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Changing Society in Two Map 1750-1900
Changing Society in Two Map 1750-1900
#1 MAP: YEAR WOMEN GOT THE RIGHT TO VOTE
#2 MAP: YEAR CITIES HAD OVER A MILLION RESIDENTS
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