Unit 6: Quiz 12--Society in the Victorian Age

What name is attached to the period in America embraced by the rich, that stressed proper behavior, elegance, consumerism, and progress?

• Victorian Age

• Age of Enlightenment

• The Golden Age

• The Gilded Age

How where machines powered before electricity?

• Hand crank

• Steam, Water, or Fire

• Wind Power

• Animal power

Women benefitted greatly from technology because...?

• They were responsible for completing the work that was made easier by new inventions

• They were more technologically advanced then men

• Technology gave them more time to devote to their careers

The development of electric power __________?

• Changed the way people lived and worked

• Freed people from having to do work for a living

• Made it easier for women to work outside the home

Which present-day activity is most like buying from a catalog during the Victorian Age?

• Shopping at a discount store

• Placing a telephone order

• Ordering goods over the internet

The ________ ________ is the social class between the wealthy upper class and the lower-income working class

• Elite Class

• Middle Class

• Welfare Class

• Independent Class

The Industrial Era created a need for a new kind of worker, such as...?

• Skilled Technicians

• Lower class labor

• White-collar jobs

When did Middle Class women normally work during the Victorian Age?

• Once they were married with children

• Whenever their husbands loss their jobs

• Only when they were young and single

The normal life of women staying at home as housewife and mother during the Victorian Age became known as the...?

• Republican Motherhood

• Cult of Domesticity

• Victorian Motherhood

Which group filled the expanding need for domestic help during the Victorian Age?

• The upper class

• The middle class

• The working class