Movements of the 1700s, 1800s

Industrial Revolution Inventions due to the industrial revolution Dynamite Electricity Automobile Assembly line Interchangeable parts

Medicine Germ Theory Cures were discovered Better hygiene Discovered by the French The idea sicknesses are caused by microscopic organisms Cures were discovered Better hygiene People washed themselves and their clothes more often

Florence Nightingale Nurse who worked on wounded soldiers in the Crimean war Wounded soldiers laid on bare ground, no sanitation, and little food Florence demanded the place be cleaned and for better care Death rate dropped from 60% to less than 2%

Victorian Age 1837-1901 had a strict code of etiquette Women had to cover themselves to ankle to wrist Even Piano legs had to be covered as they were seen as immodest

Victorian Age part 2 Women wore corsets that squeezed their waist to 18-20 inches the ideal size Wives were expected to be domestic Widows were expect to dress in black and never to remarry, men were expected to wear a black band around their hat and remarry quickly

Victorian Age pt 3 Words were changed to be more polite Chicken leg -> drumstick Chicken breast -> white meat Human legs -> limbs Prostitution -> the big evil Prostitutes - > unfortunate women Beer - > neck oil

Women Make their Move Suffrage Movement Temperance movement Fight for women to gain the right to vote Temperance movement ban alcohol Seneca Falls gathering of 300 women to gain more rights Sojourner Truth Former slave that became famous for her fight for women equality

Schools and Prisons Dorothy Dix helped to make asylums and prisons better places 1830s states started creating public schools for elementary students.

Charles Darwin Galapagos Islands Theory of Natural Selection Survival of the Fittest Evolution Social Darwinism Some races are better than others War needed out the weaker people

Transcendentalism Transcendentalism Philosophical and literary People are good, but society has corrupted us People are their best when self relient Henry Thoreau Civil disobedience