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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAKES FLIGHT

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAKES FLIGHT. Changes in Society and Culture After the Industrial Revolution (1800-1900). MANCHESTER. THE GOOD Cheaper, better housing Higher wages, shorter hours Healthier diets Growing, prosperous middle class Industry specialized, organized by growing cities.

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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAKES FLIGHT

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  1. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION TAKES FLIGHT Changes in Society and Culture After the Industrial Revolution (1800-1900)

  2. MANCHESTER THE GOOD • Cheaper, better housing • Higher wages, shorter hours • Healthier diets • Growing, prosperous middle class • Industry specialized, organized by growing cities

  3. MANCHESTER THE BAD • Miserable living/working conditions create need for legislation • Rampant pollution, esp. Irwell River • Population increases at unmanageable levels • Overuse of resources

  4. MANCHESTER THE QUESTIONS • What if we run out of resources? Where do we go? • How do we clean up this mess? • Is a growing middle class going to demand rights? • Manchester United or Manchester City?

  5. INDUSTRIALIZATION SPREADS THE GOOD • U.S., Germany, others start on road to major power • Corporations form and stocks become widespread • Women allowed to work, hold responsibility • Growing, prosperous middle class worldwide

  6. INDUSTRIALIZATION SPREADS THE BAD • Economic gap between West and rest grows immensely • Environmental concerns spread throughout world • Imperialism becomes more widespread, hits Africa • Big middle class?

  7. An Age of Reforms THE GOOD • New economic systems • Capitalism • Utilitarianism • Socialism/Communism • Unions form • Collective bargaining • Strikes • Push for abolition, suffrage • More focus on INDIVIDUALS

  8. An Age of Reforms THE BAD • Marx believes in revolution for communism • New economic systems plant seeds for 20th Century problems • Governments resist unions, violence erupts • Abolition movement leads to tension, civil war

  9. Democratic Reform and Activism THE GOOD • Birth of interest groups • Anti-Corn Law League • Reform Act of 1832 = middle class men vote • By 1918 large majority of British can vote • Women’s Political and Social Union (1903) organizes women, women push for rights • Emmeline Pankhurst

  10. Democratic Reform and Activism THE BAD • People resort to violence • Chartists • Suffragettes • Hunger strike • Self-sacrifice • Frightening if you’re targeted • Frightening if you AREN’T targeted! • Takes 100 years!

  11. And Now, For Something Completely Different… Check out the highly educational DVD clip and listen to the lyrics to learn about suffrage!

  12. Impressionism • Visible brushstrokes • Slightly blurred boundaries • Light colors • Group of artists who paint the same way make up Impressionists • Don’t use black! Water Lily Pond (1899) Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876)

  13. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte (1884-1886)

  14. The Stone-Breakers (1849-1850)

  15. Paul Cezanne POST-IMPRESSIONISM • Likes impressionist colors • Wants more geometric forms back • Very interested in geometry in paintings Still Life with a Curtain (1895)

  16. NEW TRENDS • LITERATURE: Romantic (Hugo) vs. Realist (Dickens) • MUSIC: Baroque (Bach) vs. Classical (Beethoven) • SCIENCE: Pasteur vs. Bacteria, Doctors vs. Dirty Surgery, Darwin vs. World

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