Guided Reading 20-2
By the end of the nineteenth century, more and more people lived in (1) __________________. The new industrial world led to the emergence of a (2) __________________ society.
At the top of European society stood a wealthy (3) __________________. This group made up only 5 percent of the population but controlled 30 to 40 percent of the (4) __________________.
The (5) __________________ classes consisted of lawyers, doctors, members of the civil service, business managers, engineers, architects, accountants, and chemists. The European middle classes believed in (6) __________________, which was open to everyone and guaranteed to have positive results.
The working classes were (7) __________________ peasants, farm laborers, and sharecroppers. (8) __________________ labor was made up of day laborers and domestic servants who were mostly women.
The (9) __________________ Industrial Revolution opened the door to new jobs for women. By the 1840s and 1850s, the movement for women’s rights expanded as women called for equal (10) __________________ rights.
Between 1870 and 1914, most Western governments began to set up state-financed (11) __________________ schools which both boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 12 were required to attend. The most immediate result of public education was an increase in (12) __________________. New forms of (13) __________________ appeared in society. Leisure came to be viewed as what people do for (14) __________________ after work.