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Chapter 21.3 Changing Attitudes and Values
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The main focus for today……. Cult of domesticity Temperance Social Darwinism
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Focus Q List 3 reasons that you think there was great resistance to women getting the right to vote—suffrage.
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Focus Q: Page 675, “The Ideal Home” 3 bullet point notes 1 sentence summary
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What’s the point of view of this Women’s Suffrage cartoon? See the title.
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What will we learn? 1.Upper, middle, and lower classes emerge. 2.Roles for women were partly determined by their class. 3.Women campaign against 2 nd class citizenship and for suffrage.
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Why is this important? 1.Why do you think it is normal for women to vote, get an education, and work outside the home today and not long ago there was fierce resistance to these “rights?” 2.What changed in our society?
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The Social Order Changes 1.For centuries, there were 2 social classes—nobles and peasants 2.Industrial Revolution changes this as the…… 3.Middle class emerges—and the social structure becomes more complex
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3 Social Classes Emerge 1.Upper class 2.Middle class 3.Working class
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3 Social Classes Emerge Upper class—tiny, elite group 1.Very rich business families marry into aristocratic (nobles) families
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3 Social Classes Emerge Growing middle class—mid level business people, professionals—doctors, scientists Lower middle class—teachers, office workers They struggle to keep up w/their “betters” Strict codes of etiquette re: social behavior and raising kids (seen, but not heard)
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3 Social Classes Emerge 1.Working class, peasants 30% in BR in 1900
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The Ideal Home (middle class) 1.Dominated by the **cult of domesticity Women’s main job was to take care of home, kids, husband** 2.Successful husband could afford for his wife to stay home 3.Home was a safe nest for kids and peaceful refuge for her husband from the hardships of the working world
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The Ideal Home (middle class) Sayings like: **Home, Sweet Home A Man’s Home is His Castle Reflect this cult of domesticity** 1. Not true for working class—women had to work AND take full responsibility for childcare and the home
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Piety, Purity, and Domesticity
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The home is a refuge that women create for their family.
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A bit of sarcasm perhaps. Cult of Domesticity lasts a long time.
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The cult 1950s style
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I thought they were funny…… Yo mom is so dumb that she thought Dunkin' Donuts was a basketball team. Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? A: In case he got a hole in one. If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you! Q: Why did the coach go back to the bank? A: To get his quarterback! What did the blonde say when she saw the Cheerios box? "Omg, donut seeds!"
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Women Work for Rights 1.Women and women’s groups worked to reduce a # of restrictions on women Suffrage End slavery Fairness in marriage, divorce, and property laws What’s Temperance—any clue?
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Temperance **Temperance: campaign to limit the use of alcohol** Why? 1.**Hurt productivity of the workforce and harmed family life** Women/kids were victims of physical abuse Men drank their paychecks Alcohol led to violence, gambling, prostitution, poverty, addiction
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Effectiveness of Temperance Mvmt. **limited b/c women couldn’t vote and were barred from most schools** How long was Prohibition in effect in the US? 1920-33 Scarface
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Campaign for Suffrage: Voting Rights 1.1848—Seneca Fall, NY—Declaration of Sentiments—modeled after? 2.Progress is very slow WHY? Women too emotional Need to be protected from politics Women’s place is in the home
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What’s the point of view of this Women’s Suffrage cartoon? See the title.
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Resistance to Women’s Suffrage
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When do women get suffrage in the US?
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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection 1.Charles Darwin—1859—On the Origin of the Species—EVOLUTION 2.Says that all living things evolved (changed) over time 3.Natural Selection would explain this theory 4.This theory APPLIES TO BIOLOGY
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Darwin’s Theory of Natural Selection 1.All living things compete for survival 2.Nature “selects” those that have the necessary traits best adapted to their environment to survive 3.Those w/o the proper traits die—”survival of the fittest” 4.Make sense?
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Used to justify no govt regulation of big business.
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“White Man’s Burden, 1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling. Supported European superiority Colonization Racism
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Social Darwinism 1.**Social Darwinism applied this biological theory to economic, business, and society** 2.Industrialists use it to support laissez faire economic policies—no govt regulation 3.Others say war brought progress by weeding out weaker countries 4.Supports racism—western nations are superior b/c of the supremacy of the white race
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Ensuring that only those that contribute to society will REPRODUCE.
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Chapter 21.3 creative side Draw a picture that represents the: Cult of domesticity and Social Darwinism Add a slogan for each
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21.3 Notebook assign Create three picket signs that a worker, woman, and/or artist would have carried while protesting an issue of concern during the late 1800s.
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