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18th-century ENGLISH SOCIETY - Coggle Diagram
18th-century ENGLISH SOCIETY
was
CHANGING
INCREASE IN POPULATION
(from 5 to 9 million people)
SOCIAL MOBILITY
(people moved from a social class to another)
The
middle class EXPANDS
(began in the 1500s)
1st
"INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION"
1733
–
1st SEWING MACHINE
(John Kay)
1716 – first STEAM ENGINE
(motore a vapore)
1769
-
Patent
for James Watt's
IMPROVED STEAM ENGINE
1801
–
FIRST LOCOMOTIVE
(engineer RIchard Trevithick)
SOCIAL
CLASSES
UPPER
CLASS
LANDOWNERS
ARISTOCRACY / NOBLES
WEALTHY Merchants, tradesman, manifacturers
supported the Whigs
tried to have their children marry
into the
nobility
controlled trades and owned mines/factories
MIDDLE
CLASS (15 %)
UPPER M.C.
Professionals and merchants
LOWER M.C.
Manifacturers, shopkeepers, tradesmen
LOWER CLASS
in
RURAL AREAS
MOVED
to
cities
for
JOB OPPORTUNITY,
forced out by the
ENCLOSURE
System
URBAN
POPULATION
INHUMANE CONDITIONS
illnesses
(smallpox, scurvy, typhus)
LOW PAYING JOBS
GIN DRINKING & CRIME
51% children died BEFORE 5 years old
REST -->
HIRED as APPRENTICES by PARISHES
by the age of 7