IR4 Society and Culture

SS9 – Crossroads

- IR4 – Society and Culture

Society and Culture

Britain, like other countries, had a rigid and complex class structure that often determined your life before you were even born.

The middle class was divided into upper and lower, with white and blue collar workers.

The working class had different rankings – skilled and unskilled labour and casual labour.

Women became active members of the work force, sometimes working side by side with men in the mines and factories.

The poor often sought a new life in the British colonies overseas. Despite the hardship of a new country it was often a better life than in the poor industrialized cities of England.

When disaster, like the Irish Potato Famine, it was often the poor who suffered the most.

SS9 – Crossroads

- IR – Society and Culture

Society and Culture

Directions: Read pages 150-156 in your text Crossroads – A Meeting of Nations.

1. On a separate piece of paper, provide definitions for the following terms;

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2. On a separate piece of paper, answer the following questions using COMPLETE

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1. Describe 2 of the 3 classes of society found in Britain and provide an example for each. (2 mks for description and examples)

1. Provide 2 examples as to how women managed during the Industrial Revolution (1 example as to how it was hard and 1 example as to how they bettered themselves). (2 mks for examples)

1. Copy out the table 5-1 on page 154 of your textbook and use those statistics to describe how life must have been like for a poor person during the Industrial Revolution. Why do you think living conditions were so bad? (2 mks for table and quality of response)

1. Give two examples as to why a person would leave Britain to start a new life overseas in the British Colonies. (2 mks for description and quality of thought)

3. Use the map found on page 154 of your text to complete the following map. You will be marked out of 10 for your ability to label all of the major regions, water bodies and cities in Great Britain, as well as quality of work and evidence of effort

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Use the map found on page 154 of your text to complete the following map. You will be marked out of 10 for your ability to label all of the major regions, water bodies and cities in Great Britain, as well as quality of work and evidence of effort