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**__Changing Attitudes and Values__** **Three Social Classes:**

//__Upper Class__//: Rich business families. "Wealthy entrepreneurs married into aristocratic families, gaining the status of noble titles."

//__Higher Middle Class__//: Middle level business people, doctors, and scientists. Enjoyed comfortable incomes and material goods.

//__Lower Middle Class__//: Teachers and office workers. "They struggled to keep up with their 'betters' ".?

//Lower Class:// Workers and Peasants. Made up more then 30% of the population.


 * Cult of domesticity**- Idealization of woman and the home. A society where men made a comfortable income so the wife could be the main caregiver for the family. Women spent their time raising children, directing servants, and doing religious or charitable serive.This concept applied to the middle class because the lower class women had to work full time to care [[image:images.jpg align="right"]]for themselves and children.


 * Women Work for Rights **

The goal of the woman's sufferage movement was to abolish restrictions on women. Active women campaigned for fairness in marriage, divorce and property laws. These women would go so far as to go on hunger strikes and risking their lives to achieve their goals. Even middle class women who disapproved of such radical actions demanded the right to vote. It wasn't until 1918 that Parliament granted suffrage to women over 30. Younger women did not win the right to vote for another decade.


 * Science Takes New Directions **

John Dalton showed that each element has its own kind of atoms and how different kinds of atoms combine to make all chemical substances. [|**Learn more about Daltons Atomic Theory**] Russian Chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev drew up a table that grouped elements according to their atomic weights, this table became the basis for the periodic table of elements used today.
 * Atomic Theory:**

Darwin argued that all forms of life, including human beings, had evolved into their present state over millions of years. He used his theory of natural selection to explain the process of evolution. Darwin adopted Thomas Malthus's idea that all plants and animals produced more offspring than the food supply could support. Which he said resulted in members of each species constantly competeing to survive. Natural forces "selected" those with physical traits best adapted to their envioronment to survive to survive and to pass the trait on to their offspring this is called "survival of the fittest."
 * Natural Selection: Charles Darwin**


 * Social Darwinism-** Applying the idea of survival of the fittest to war and economic competition. Some thinkers used Darwin's theories to support their own beliefs about society. This theory encouraged racism, the unscientific belief that one racial group is superior to another.



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