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7/29/2019 Guided Notes - IR Living Conditions
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Aim: What was life like during the Industrial Revolution?
Name: ____________________________________________
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Station 1: Working Class Homes & Neighborhoods
____________& ________________ No running water or toilets Human & factory waste emptied into
waterways
Diseases like cholera, typhus, smallpox anddysentery spread due to poor sanitation
________________ Apartment for Entire Family Built Fast & Cheap Located Near Factory
Chimney smoke, waste from factories Dark, Narrow Streets
Unsafe
Station 2: Life as Coal Miner
_______________________ Flooding Gas Explosions
Mine Collapse
____________________________ Respiratory Illnesses
Women & Children Workers Vulnerable population
Station 3: Life as a Mill Worker
______________ & ______________ Fumes, chemicals, heat Standing in one place damages bones & joints __________________________ (i.e. Guard Rails)
Child Labor Employ orphans dont have to pay them
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Aim: What was life like during the Industrial Revolution?
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Station 4: Middle Class
Social Class of ________________________________ Professionals, business people & wealthy landowners Enjoyed Comfortable Standard of Living
Time & Money Available For: ______________________________ Education (Gender Differences) Domestic help Better diet Fashion, housing
Women Lack Rights Cant: own property, divorce, vote, write a will
Station 5: A Modest Proposal
__________________________ Plight of Tenant Farmer in Country Response to Anti-Irish / Catholic Sentiment Mocks the
_______________________________________
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Lack of a Social Safety Net
Station 6: Art & Literature Romanticism
_____________________ view of new technology Changes would elevate society
Encouraged individualism, freedom, and emotion Images reflect __________ & _________________ view
Realism Anti-Romanticism Images Reflect _______________________ &
________________________
Poor / Working Class Were Subjects Often depicted people at work
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Aim: What was life like during the Industrial Revolution?
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Frankensteinby Mary Shelley Gothic Novel: Extension of Romanticisms celebration of
emotion
terror as the most extreme form of emotion Death and destruction monster wreaks symbolizes the
________________________ of industrialization
Frankensteins obsession with science is motivated byhis desires for fame and profit - he fails to consider the consequences of
his actions
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Calls attention to negative impact of the Poor Law, child
labor, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the
presence of 'street children'
New Poor Laws (1834) Send poor toworkhouses to prevent all but the very hopeless
from seeking assistance
Poverty was the fault of the individual and should bepunished
Inmates were forced to work hard, paid little and conditionswere terrible