Learning Notes For Work, Life and Leisure Class 10 History
Brief Concepts of the Lesson
Metropolis –
A large, densely populated city of a country or state often the
capital of region.
Older cities like London
changed dramatically when people begun pouring in after the industrial revolution. Factory or workshop owners did not house the
migrant workers. Instead individual landowners put up cheap, and
usually unsafe, tenements for the new arrivals.
Temperance movement – a
largely middle class led social reform movement which emerged in
Britain and America from the 19th
century onwards it identified alcoholism as the cause of the ruin of
families and society and aimed at reducing the consumption of
alcoholic drinks particularly amongst the working classes.
Libraries art galleries and
museums were established in the 19th
century to provide people with a sense of history and pride in the
achievements of the British.
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