5.9

Question 1

tenement

Answer 1

terrible apartment buildings often constructed by the factories the workers and their families who lived there worked in

Question 2

slums

Answer 2

tightly-packed areas of cities where low-income families were forced to live. disease spread quickly.

Question 3

working class

Answer 3

the bottom level of British society, those who labored in factories and coal mines. They were unskilled and thus deemed replaceable.

Question 4

white-collar workers

Answer 4

educated and sophisticated office workers who managed the working class

Question 5

“cult of domesticity”

Answer 5

middle-class women were forced to stay at home as it became a status symbol. pamphlets encouraged women to buy things and make the house perfect as a place of respite for their husbands and be submissive. This gave rise to feminism.

Question 6

Mass production

Answer 6

making a lot of goods quickly and cheaply for distribution