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Daily Life in the Late 1800’s

Daily Life in the Late 1800’s. Chapter 22 Section 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

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Daily Life in the Late 1800’s

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  1. Daily Life in the Late 1800’s Chapter 22 Section 3

  2. Key Terms • Urbanization • Romanticism • William Wordsworth • Ludwig von Beethoven • Realism • Charles Dickens • Leo Tolstoy • Henrick Ibsen • Impressionism

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Migration to Cities • Most lived a miserable life on arrival • Jacob Riss describe New York’s apartments and tenements

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Education and Information • Increased industrialization increased the need for education • Factories needed managers, engineers • Armed forces grew needed leaders who knew about the world

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. Leisure Time • 1800’s governments built concert halls and theatres • Public funding made tickets affordable • Museums opened- Louvre in Paris

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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

  22. Change in the Arts • HenrikIibsen- 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

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