Changing Attitudes and Values

Chapter 6 Section 3

New Social Order

Three Social Classes Late 1800s in Western Europe

Upper classes = very rich business families Middle Class = mid-business people, and

professionals like doctors and scientists Lower Middle Class = teachers and office workers Lowest = Workers, peasants

30 percent population (1900)

The Ideal Home

Middle Class Husbands who were successful kept women at home Women

reared children directed servants Pious (religious)

CULT OF DOMESTICITY Idealized women in

the home

Women Advance

Elizabeth Cady Stanton U.S. women rights

activist against slavery

Suffrage What do you think this

means? Discuss with neighbor

Darwin’s Theory

Natural Selection 1859, Darwin published

On The Origins of Species Hugely controversial Evolution Natural Selection

Natural forces selected those with physical traits best adapted to their environment to survive and to pass the trait on to their offspring

Social Darwinism

Idea of survival of the fittest

People applied these ideals how they wished RASCISM 1800s, many Europeans

and Americans claimed that their success was due to supremacy of white races.