Crime rates increased
Cramped tenements in overcrowded neighborhoods (slums)
Alcoholism increased
Disease spread quickly
Pollution
City planners created parks, boulevards, public buildings
Safety improved with street lights, police forces and expanded fire protection
Sewage systems cut death rates
Trolley lines allowed people to move further from their work
7. How did the Industrial Revolution change the old social order and long-held traditions in
the Western World?
• Three distinct social classes emerged – upper, middle & working
• Middle class tastes and values became a measuring stick for the working class
• “Cult of domesticity”
• Women sought a political voice, the right to vote, the chance to attend universities– Temperance
movement–Women’s suffrage
• Late 1800s – improvements to public education – more children attended school, teacher training schools were set up
• Colleges & universities expanded as well
Romanticism• Reaction to the
Enlightenment• Writers = combined
history, legend, folklore
• Music & art – emphasized feelings
Realism• Represent the
world as it was, not idealistic
• Often portrayed the poor and their struggles