social context

Question 1

population growth

Answer 1

• population growth of 250% over the course of a century
• urban population 8.8% in 1800 but 28% in 1900

Question 2

emigration

Answer 2

-750,000 Norwegians emigrated to the US (largely from farming areas)
-economic growth could not keep pace with population growth and many left

Question 3

upper class

Answer 3

-essentially no aristocracy or upper class as industrialisation was late and ha not created the bourgeois class and the 1821 abolition of nobility did away with titles

Question 4

rules around women

Answer 4

• Women have no right to her possessions or the family’s money ; this all fell under male duristiction
  -mothers taited by scandal were seen as disgusting and evil , potentially blocked from seeing their children
  -divorce was very rare and only available if granted by the king

Question 5

women and jobs

Answer 5

-women worked in light industry sewing which required ‘little hands’

Question 6

equal inheritance

Answer 6

granted in 1854 for both sexes

Question 7

unmarried women became major ‘regardless of age’

Answer 7

1864

Question 8

the age maturity for women was changed to 2 1 given that women matured earlier than men

Answer 8

1869

Question 9

law passed that free enterprise to any unmarried women

Answer 9

1866

Question 10

by…. there were 165 men to every 100 women and the family unit entirely fell apart

Answer 10

1900