5.9

Society and the Industrial Age

AP World History: Modern

Mass migration

Internal migration: Rural to urban

Transoceanic migration

Asian and Pacific migration

Forced migration

Education and literacy

Mass education

Literacy and its effects

Consumerism and material culture

The rise of consumer society

Leisure and entertainment

Artistic and intellectual responses

Romanticism

Realism

Impressionism and post-Impressionism

Photography

Social Darwinism and racial ideology

Primary sources

Charles Dickens, Hard Times (1854)

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890)

Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (1851)

Key figures

Key events summary

Vocabulary