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Daily Life in the Late 1800’s
Chapter 22Section 3
Key Terms
Urbanization Romanticism William Wordsworth Ludwig von Beethoven Realism Charles Dickens Leo Tolstoy Henrick Ibsen Impressionism
The Industrial City
Raw material were sent to factories
New products manufactured in factories
Products distributed to buyers
Cities needed› Factories› Large work force› Reliable transportation
network› Stores, offices,
warehouses
The Industrial City
Lowell , Massachusetts one of the first to have all
Growth by textile mill Employed young
women from countryside and new Europeans
Meatpacking in Chicago Population grew from
300,000 in 1850 to 1.7 million by 1900
The Industrial City
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for steel
Lively and fast paced› Streetcars, horse
drawn carriages› Merchants› New construction
Population density affected health› Smoky air from coal› Smog kills in 1873
and 1879
Migration to the Cities
1800’s people kept arriving to avoid› Hunger› Political oppression› discrimination
1870 – 1900 12 million people immigrated
1890 42% of New Yorkers were foreign born
Migration to Cities
Most lived a miserable life on arrival
Jacob Riss describe New York’s apartments and tenements
The Livable City Cities modernized
their water and sewer systems
Plumbing allowed families clean drinking water, toilets and bathtubs
Electricity- vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, electric stoves
The Livable City
Living space became scarce1883 William Le Baron built the first skyscraper in Chicago› 10 stories tall› 4 years later the high
speed elevator was invented
1863 London opened the first subway
The Livable City
1860’s Napoleon III created parks
People in Paris had a place for healthy recreation
Frederick Olmstead designed parks for the United States
The Suburbs
People moved out to new areas called suburbs
Less crowded, cleaner, quieter
Public transportation helped them grow
1800’s streetcars and ferries linked cities to suburbs
Later were bus and railroad lines
Education and Information
Increased industrialization increased the need for education
Factories needed managers, engineers
Armed forces grew needed leaders who knew about the world
Education and Information
People became involved with Politics
1870 governments passed laws to educate children
Most countries only required elementary education
Some governments funded high schools
Education and Information
Lower class kids only stayed in school as required by law
Many quit to go to work Vocational and
technical schools gave working class more opportunities
1881 Booker T. Washington founded a school to train African Americans to be teachers
Education and Information
Girls in lower classes lagged behind
Most girls did not go beyond elementary
Few girls in high school took science and math
Women’s colleges started to open
Education and Information
Starting printing newspapers
Stories published in weekly segments kept readers coming back
Pick a newspaper that agreed with your view
Reporting of foreign affairs by telegraph
Made up to date coverage available
Leisure Time
Soccer, Football, baseball became popular
Railroads could transport sports fans
Working class families could take the train for a vacation
Seaside resorts became popular
Leisure Time
1800’s governments built concert halls and theatres
Public funding made tickets affordable
Museums opened- Louvre in Paris
Change in the Arts
1800’s Romanticism-emphasis on intuition and feeling
Reaction to enlightenment rationalism and early abuses of Industrial Revolution
Major characteristics› Love of nature› Affection for past› Importance of
imagination
Change in the Arts
William Wordsworth-expressed romantic spirit through poetry
Ludwig van Beethoven- celebrated human freedom in his work
Mid 1800’s realism› Revealed details of
everyday life› No matter how
unpleasant
Change in the Arts
Charles Dickens wrote Hard Times about the struggle of England’s poor › Pollution› Exploitation› Miseries of
industrialization Leo Tolstoy- wrote
War and Peace showed war as horrible and chaotic
Change in the Arts
Henrik Iibsen- A Doll’s House about unfair treatment of women within families
1860 Impressionism New way of looking at
the world Impression of the
scene using light, vivid color, and motion, rather than realistic details