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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    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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    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