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American History
Victorian Values
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History
Undergraduate 1
09/24/2008

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Market Revolution
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Changed everything in America; shaped the revloution
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Household Economy
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Rooted in the countryside; labor goes directly into the family; small community
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Task oriented work
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Kind of labor where it is your task to make something; agriculture- hard work to do the tasks to get food
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Time Oriented Work
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Work for a certain amount of time; people started to make goods to sell in the market
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Paternalism
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Male is the head of the household; family structure is modeled in the society (father-wife-children-servants)
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Self-made man
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You will get ahead in life if you work hard
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Self-control
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Must have control over your life and destiny; controlling your animal appetite and impulses
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Domesesticity
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Domestic management of the household
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Sylvester Graham
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Wrote advice books for young men; sex was a big topic and should be controlled in both single and married men
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Catherine Beecher
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Thought that married women should be in charge of the morals of the household and society; morals were the domain of the women
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Christen Gentlemen
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True Woman
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A sweet asexual creature that is used by her husband and children; ran the home when it came to moral issues
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St. Monday
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Going out on the weekend and drinking was part of the middle class and sis not come into work or came in late on Mondays because they were hungover; something that the Victorian society looked down upon
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Temperance
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launched by the Victorians; banned alcohol; was popular among the Victorian woman in particular
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