5.9 - Society and the Industrial Age

• START HERE: History 2024 class plan

• Heimler's history review guide

• Heimler's History Unit 4 Youtube

• Heimler's History Unit 5 Youtube

• OpenSTAX World History from 1400

• AP World Past Exams

• NotebookLM AP World notebook

• APWorld Timeline (fiveable)

• #hw (hist) Read history Read section 6.1: Rationales for Imperialism pages 367–374 2025-03-11

• #hw (hist) Read history Read section 6.2: State Expansion pages 375–387 2025-03-11

Topics

• blue-collar vs white-collar work (Youtube search)
• slums, tenements, and urban life (Youtube search)
• the lure of the middle class lifestyle (Youtube search)
• child labor, disruption of family connection by factory life (Youtube search)
• The growth of convenience, and its price in pollution (Youtube search)
• The rise of feminism

Discussion

• How could it be that both feminism and the concept of an ideal female homemaker arose during the same time period?
• What do you think it was about the dream of middle-class life that could lead rural people to swarm to the city and take difficult, dirty, and dangerous factory jobs?

Homework

• #hw (hist) Read Charles Dickens' The Wreck of the Golden Mary (there are 20 pages, you have to click through them) and take notes on three things that illustrate what it was like to live during those times. We will discuss them in class. 2025-03-13