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 (you) * 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
Work-Life *Sun-up to Sun-down in fields Worked extra at home Work and home combined Apprenticeship with skilled artisans Work pace varried with orders	Work-Life *Sun up to sun down (same long days) Strict bell schedule Work and life seperate Free labor ideas Much more worker mobility high turnover
Social Order * Strict social hierarchy *Elite>Professionals>Artisans>Farmers>Paupers>Slaves	Social Order * Wealthy artisans upset social order * Dynamic classes (upper, middle, lower) Emergence of the middle class (white collar workers)
Economy *barter with nearby community Made many goods yourself Local-based	Economy *Cash based economy Bought stuff from stores International
Women’s Role *Directly controlled by husbands No Legal Rights/vocie Boys learned from Dad and girls learned from Mom	Women’s Role *More independent and more of a partner in relationship Read decorating magazines and had mother's clubs Emerging voice through strikes and 10hr day demands Independent in Factories Had fewer children through abstinence Mothers raised both genders - provided moral upbringing.
Men’s Role * Unquestioned authority over the family * Had all the legal power * Head of the family	Men’s Role * Concentrated on careers *Less involved with family