Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 railway time | local variations disappeared as the nation conformed to one way of telling time |
| typhoid and cholera | two diseases spread by water that were caused by unsanitary conditions in the cities |
| Municipal Corporations Act | gave local governments the power to raise taxes for urban improvements |
| Thames River | river in London that became an open sewer |
| Great Stink | term used to refer to the rancid odor of the River Thames |
| Sir Robert Peel | organized the first police force of London |
| Hard Times and David Copperfield | novels by Charles Dickens that described dismal industrial cities |
| 1850 | after this date, the many of the material benefits of industrialization began to "trickle down" to the industrial workers |
| standard of living | this rose during the 19th century for the working classes |
| work discipline | new way of life in which everyone in the family worked to support the family as a whole |
| cult of domesticity | was elevated in the 19th century to an almost sacred status and glorified the domestic role of women as wives and mothers |
| Saddler Commission | exposed the horrors of child labor |
| social emulation | each social class aspired to the habits and patterns of consumption of their superiors |
| Thorstein Veblen | social theorist who is associated with the idea of social emulation |
| The Theory of the Leisure Class | written by Thorstein Veblen |
| Great Exhibition of 1851 | A huge range of British products were displayed for foreign and domestic visitors in the monumental visionary architectural achievement of the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park |
| Crystal Palace | place where the Great Exhibition was held |
| national identity, railway time, less isolation, fast travel | impacts of the transportation revolution |
| rising incomes, population increase, women's jobs, social emulation | factors that drove the consumer revolution |
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