Living Conditions in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century. Life in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century was dangerous especially for the lower class, the terrible slum conditions made life difficult and hygiene was not regularly practiced, life was a constant battle against all sorts of infectious diseases, and yet the City Council did little to nothing at all to improve these conditions. Life was even worse when the unsanitary environment became accompanied by the Bubonic Plague, though only about a hundred died, many people agree that the Black Death was a key factor that helped improve the lives of the poverty stricken citizens of Australia. In this report, two sources relating to the living conditions of Australia during the…
Rather than women constantly being stay-at-home mothers, they were able to get out an obtain careers and the family structure is changed.…
In the 1840s it was a time that life was so different and affordable. According to Scholastic Scope (Time Machine 1840s), there is 26 states in the U.S. Products like milk is sold for 10 cents and eggs were sold for 1 cent each in the market. The majority of Americans who live in the U.S, live on farms. For only few months a year, kids got one room schoolhouse and all the students of all ages, share one teacher. The older boys help out their dads on the farms and girls help out their mom with milking goats, cooking, and cleaning their house. In freetime, young people play checkers, seesaws, swim, and elaborate games of pretend. The 1840s is a time of widespread superstition of ghosts stories and other weird tales. There is no running water in their house. If you want to drink, you will have to drink from the dwells. There is no bathrooms, and electricity. They also had weird believes. They believed if your right eye hurts then bad luck is coming your way. The 1840s was the time that Westward Expansion started when they found gold in California. In the east, the European settlers were killing the Native Americans and getting their land. In the south, many men, women, and children were enslaved. There were…
The social change in America also brought about a cultural change in America. Illiteracy declined in people over 10 from 6% in 1920 to 2.4% in 1960 (Doc K). This shows that America as a whole was taking education more seriously. With the higher literacy rate came a higher family income in the Suburbs, this was 70 per cent higher than the rest of the nation (Doc J). The status of women also changed. This was the, “Suburban Housewife.” The suburban housewife was the dream of young American women. One who was freed by science and laborsaving appliances and dangers of childbirth (Doc M). She was concerned only about her husband. This was a huge change from when women were trying to fight the right to vote, and were constantly in the news. “Feminine fulfillment became the cherished and self-perpetuating core of…
Between the years 1950 and 1970, wages increased significantly allowing most families to achieve the then ideal of a male-breadwinner, single income household. Beginning in the 1970s there was an enormous economic shift in the United States. Going from a manufacturing based economy to a service based economy there was a large change in the types of jobs now available to men as more opportunities for women and those with higher education. The level of education an individual received now largely dictated what type of job they were eligible for and women, now able to provide for themselves and their families relied less on the ideals of a breadwinner, male run household as they were given more opportunities both in education and the workforce. New family dynamics relied heavily on whether or…
To begin with, Women’s Rights were finally addressed during the ‘20’s. Women also shed many of their old household responsibilities.…
In this historical study an analysis of the reformation ideology of the urban slum will be defined through the clearing out of the lower classes in New York City’s Five Points Tenements during the late 19th century. The 19th century “slum” was a negative social and economic development that was based on locating immigrant workers in New York City into low-income tenement projects, which was an attempt to accommodate the massive influx of low-cost labor from Europe. The Five Points is an important example of over-crowded tenement housing that was unsustainable due to disease, poor sanitary conditions, and non-existent housing regulations that regulated the number of people living in these large buildings. During this time many urban “reformers’…
Most families today don’t have much control over their children as they did back then. Parents still teach their children some of the things they did back then but it has completely changed. The basics are still around. Since women are now considered equal to men and don’t have to only care for their families has made a big difference. It has affected both the mothers and the children too. Women now seek careers equal to men. You now see young women learning trades that only men would learn. Daughters are encouraged to strive for a higher education and at the same time to learn the basics of running a house. Sons are also encouraged to strive for a higher learning and to be a responsible head of the household.…
One way that the city life changed in the 1800’s is the germ theory. “Not until 1870’s did French chemist Louis Pasteur clearly show the link between microbends and disease”(249). Thanks to his investigation people took disease and germs more seriously. “Pasteur went on making other major contributions, including the development of vaccines against rabies”(249) Without having the shot against rabies many of us would be dead because animals and germs are always around us. Another way the city life changed in the 1800’s is anesthesia. “Anesthesia was the first used to relieve pain during surgery”(250). Today we use anesthesia a lot in the medical department, “The use of anesthetics allowed doctors to experiment with operations that had ever…
One of the main reasons why the 21st century is better than the 1920s is the 19th amendment Women’s Suffrage. This act was passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. Woman finally gained the right to vote and do the same things men did. Still, most women were not treated as equal as men, yes they had their rights, but they still weren’t treated as fairly as men in a respectable manner. Now in the 21st century woman and men are completely equal they are treated respectfully, if not more respectfully than men are treated. Woman can do everything a man can do without receive a consequence, which compared to the 1920s would be considered a miracle.…
In the 18th and 19th century, a woman's role was set very firmly in the home. Due to traditional expectations of women living before and during the 19th century, very few women had the same social opportunities for education…
“If one compares a woman in 1900 with her counterpart in 2000, the gains have been significant. There were the obvious changes, such as the right to vote and other governmental policies supporting women in the 1960s and 1970s. The results were women successfully engaging in certain jobs for the first time. Where women were once a minority, or excluded entirely, by 1980, they accounted for more than half of all undergraduate students”, (Bowles, 2011).…
Women had it difficult from the middle of the 1800s to early 1900s. There was a difference of the treatment compared of the woman to the men. Women barely had any rights compared to now. Women were not even allowed to vote until August 18th, 1920. They were also not even allowed to attend universities to study things as a career of jobs such as law, nursing, and many more.…
We can see these differences and similarities in things like military, work force, home life, suffrage, and civil rights. Women in the 1900’s seeked to be seen as wives and mothers. Women were not career driven in these times. One thing women then and women today share in common is their need for independence. At the start of the twentieth-century women were expected to marry and…
The role of women and their political, economic, social and cultural opportunities have changed greatly. Because of suffrage, women are now allowed to take on jobs that they were once forced to resign from once they got married and decided to start a family. Whereas women were once afraid to work and take on demanding jobs in fear of disobeying certain rules, we have now empowered ourselves to take on a career positions and be the bread winners as well as still run the household. During the Progressive Era into the Great Depression, women were viewed as subordinates to males where they were subjected to laws and regulations imposed by men. A woman can now raise a family,…