Industrial Revolution Changes

American Studies Chapter Twelve Group Assignment

Pre-Industrial Society (327-330)	Commercial and Industrial Revolution (338-346)
Religion * Puritanism * Order and Intelligence * Reverend commands through sermons and high position * Salvation through attending Church * Main Belief: Original Sin	Religion * Evangelicalism * Personal Faith * Democratic way of believing * Salvation through conversion and repentance * Main Belief: Morally Respectable Behavior
Family * Lived and worked together * Strong patriarchal control * Followed the ways of their ancestors	Family * Lived and worked together * Weaker patriarchal control * More of an original lifestyle with less ancestral influence
Social Order * Strict social hierarchy * Elitist society * Artists and farmers	Social Order * Wealthy artisans upset social order * Dynamic classes * Factory workers
Women’s Role * Feeding * Child Raising * Clothing * Care of Apprentices	Women’s Role * Men opposed women participating in the work force * Women commonly worked at textile factories
Men’s Role * Unquestioned authority over the family * Had all the legal power * Head of the family	Men’s Role * Concentrated on careers * Had less to do with family * Worked more at factories and less on the farm