The New Social Order
This new kind of family unit, consisting of parents and children, replaced the sprawling extended families of earlier generations.
What is the nuclear family?
In 1848, figures like Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton helped organize this landmark gathering demanding equal rights for women.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
Education became a preparation for industrial life, teaching students this quality by making them arrive on time, just as they would in a factory.
What is punctuality?
In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, detailing his theory of evolution by this process.
What is Natural Selection?
This prominent leader and master strategist possessed an uncanny vision of the future, predicting the brewing storm of World War I.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This American heiress married into the British aristocracy, using her wealth to sustain a noble estate and elevating her family to the titled elite.
Who is Consuelo Vanderbilt?
This activist delivered the famous "Ain't I a Woman?" speech, boldly challenging a society that denied rights based on both gender and race.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
To improve the quality of teaching, governments established these specific institutions explicitly designed to train teachers.
What are "normal schools"?
This geologist argued that the Earth was shaped over millions of years by slow processes, directly challenging traditional religious timelines.
Who is Charles Lyell?
Bismarck saw this specific region as a "tinderbox" of nationalist sentiments and territorial rivalries that could spark a massive conflict.
What are the Balkans?
In the industrial middle-class home, the ideal woman was expected to embody this "cult," making her the moral center of the household.
What is the "cult of domesticity"?
She wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman in 1791 and ultimately paid for her radical activism with her life.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
In secondary education, boys were typically steered toward science and math, while girls were taught basic literacy and these skills.
What are domestic skills?
This chemist proposed the atomic theory, stating that all matter was made of tiny, indivisible particles called atoms.
Who is John Dalton?
This philosopher suggested that religion would fade away in the modern age.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
Middle-class life was governed by an intricate code of this, which included rules for how to dress, host dinners, and even express grief.
What is etiquette?
Many women first entered public activism through this movement, which sought to reduce alcohol consumption and fight domestic violence.
What is the temperance movement?
Schools emphasized this ideology to create citizens who would support the state as well as the economy.
What is patriotism?
Charles Darwin drew upon the work of this man, who wrote about population pressure and competition for resources.
Who is Thomas Malthus?
This religious movement argued that Christianity should actively confront social injustice, rather than focusing solely on individual salvation.
What is the Social Gospel movement?
At the top of the expanding middle class were these individuals—such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers—whose education gave them prestige and stability.
Who are professionals?
Women in the United States finally secured the right to vote in 1920 with the passage of this amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?
Earning her medical degree in 1849, she became a symbol of what was possible for women in higher education despite significant resistance.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
This twisted concept used "survival of the fittest" as a convenient excuse for racism, imperialism, and harsh attitudes toward the poor.
What is Social Darwinism?
This specific organization helped Jewish immigrants escaping persecution build new lives during the industrial era.
What is the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society?