Changing/Conflicting Attitudes

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More Change

• As societies changed, individual and group attitudes and values changed.

• Traditional ideas were challenged and some dropped.

• Fads and trendy ideas, were tried.

Cult of domesticity: *

• the ideal woman was the woman who stayed in and managed the home.

• Modeled in songs, novels, magazines, slogans “home, sweet home!”

• Middle and upper class practice.

Temperance Movement

• Effort led mostly by American women for a national ban of drinking alcohol.

• EC: Reasons (2)

• Male drunken violence against women and children

• Loss of family income and jobs due to drunkenness.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton:

• in mid 1840s, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and she were leaders in – the movement to abolish US slavery – the gaining of women’s rights.

Women’s suffrage:

• movement to gain right to vote for women• US: Seneca Falls Convention—women and

men declare effort to gain women’s suffrage.• Similar movements sprang up in Britain and part

of Europe.

Sojourner Truth:

• African-American woman who spoke out against – mistreatment of Blacks in America

• also was a proponent of women’s suffrage.

John Dalton:• English Quaker school teacher who

expanded ancient Greek ideas about the atom.

• He is considered the pioneer of the atomic theory:

• All matter is composed of atoms.• After his work physicists and chemists

pointed their attention at identifying atoms.

Charles Darwin: • British naturalist (biologist). • 1830s, set sail on a government-

sponsored scientific voyage around the world.

• In 1859, he published his ideas:–All forms of life, including humans,

had evolved (changed slowly over time) into their present state.

Racism:• belief that one race is superior to

another…..often based on unscientific or manipulated scientific evidence or theory.

• “Whites” will use racism to justify taking over lands owned by non-Whites and subjugating the non-Whites to work for them and buy their products – imperialism.

Social gospel:• Western Christian movement

aimed at social work to improve the lives of those in need, even non-Westerners

Standards Check, p. 211

• Question:

• Three distinct classes:– Upper– Middle– Lower

Infographic, p. 211

• Questions:• 1• Show only acceptable activities for women were in

the home.• 2• Similar:

– Women are performing domestic activities

• Different:– Women shown entertaining and doing everyday chore.

Primary Source, p. 212

• Question:’

• She believes that an well-rounded education would

• prepare women for the unexpected

• make them more independent.

Standards Check, p. 212

• Question:

• Women were too emotional to vote;

• should be protected from politics;

• belonged at home, not in public

• Political farce

Standards Check, p. 213

• Question:

• Fewer children needed in farms or shops;

• Middle class families could send kids to school.

Image, p. 213

• Question:

• Girls also being taught science

• Bright, supplied classroom

Infographic, p. 215

• Questions• 1• Travel let him study different varieties,• This gave him ideas about survival and

evolution.• 2• The isolated species on the Galapagos had to

adapt to the environment. • The Islands were a natural laboratory.

Standards Check, p. 216

• Question

• Research of Lyell and Darwin challenged traditional and Biblical views.

Standards Check, p. 216

• Question:

• They worked for reform and social services

Brief Response

• Why are religious fundamentalists against science in today’s world?