Ch 23 Flashcards
gold standard
value of a currency was defined in terms of gold, could be exchanged
Second Industrial Revolution
steel,chemicals,electricity,oil
Henry Bessemer-Bessemer Process
created steel cheaply and mass quantities
Gottlieb Daimler
modern internal combustion engine
Henry Ford
car accessible to masses; assembly line
3 major oil suppliers
Standard Oil of US; Brit. Shell Oil; Royal Dutch Petroleum
word coined at this time
unemployment
W.H. Smith
owner of railway newsstands (part of new middle class=new money)
Henri Fournier
won 1901 Paris to Berlin Motor Car Race
petite bourgeoisie (lower middle c)
white collar workers; working class origins;belong to unions; sought distance b/w them and lower-class lifestyle
Baron Georges Haussmann (Sewer guy)
Napoleon III; redesigned Paris=cleaner and more organized; oversaw vast urban reconstruction program
métro
subway system put in
1889 Eiffel Tower
orig. temporary structure for international trade exposition of 1889
Sacré Cœur
built Roman Catholic Church
Cholera
touched all classes; led to sanitary reforms
Louis René Villermé, Edwin Chadwick, Rudolf Virchow
argued for everyone to get clean
Melun Act of 1851 (France)
concern for public health
Louis Pasteur, Robert Kock, Joseph Lister
science behind the clean; inc public concern about cleanliness
A.V. Huber (Ger)
housing reforms
Jules Simon
good housing=good family life=stronger patriotic feeling
Married Woman’s Property Act (Brit)
allowed women to own property by self
“female job”
school teaching at elementary level
putting-out system
manufacturer own fabric not made in factory, put it out for tailoring; sweatshops
Economic vulnerability of women (why Mercy made)
led to women going into prostitution b/c they couldn’t live on their wages
fewer prostitutes in manufacturing towns
b/c steady employment available and community life=more stable
Bon Marché
was made; department store
Mary Wollstonecraft
the vindication of Rights of women; women’s rights=right of men
John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor
lib freedom women: the Subjection of Women-utility+ efficiency expose human+social waste b/c=inferior role women have
Millicent Fawcett
led moderate National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies-parl. give women right to vote if respon.
Henry Fawcett (Harr.’s hubby)
supported her; Liberal Party cabinet minister and economist-supported feminism
Emmeline Pankhurst (arrested)
radical branch of Brit. feminists