How Did The 19th Century Change

Change and Progress in a Time of Peace
Change has always been an inevitable part of life. Sometimes, change is for the better, and sometimes, change is for the worse. However, the “long nineteenth century” introduced changes that were undeniably for the better and would affect the lives of everyone living in that era and those that came after it. Specifically, health, methods of communication, and feminist ideas experienced great change during the years between the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of World War I, with their inventions of the vaccine, the telegraph, and discovering the importance of family bonding, respectively. Without these advances, the lives we live today would be entirely different. Thousands of lives would
It was during this time that the telegraph (which had originally been created during the French Revolution in an attempt by the French to send and receive information quickly) was modified and patented by American Samuel Morse. With the help of his colleague, Alfred Vail, Morse also created Morse code, which was the way people communicated with the telegraph. The telegraph remained a popular form of long-distance communication until new technology, which was oftentimes modeled after the telegraph itself, replaced it at toward the end of the 19th century. The telephone, which was patented in 1876, would be an example of a replacement of the telegraph. However, one invention that came about during the Second Industrial Revolution that remains popular today is Braille. In 1825, a blind teenager by the name of Louis Braille modeled a system of reading and writing for the blind after a failed system of writing originally created for the French military to use at night. Braille slowly became the accepted reading and writing system for blind individuals, the United States being the last country in the 19th century to adopt it in 1916. This system impacted the blind community’s lives for the better, finally allowing them to ability to read and write. It is
At the turn of the 19th century, it was widely agreed that women and men played very specific roles in a family: a man was responsible for going to work and earning money (“putting bread on the table) while a woman was responsible for cooking, cleaning, and bearing and raising children. In short, men were expected to have lives outside of the house, and women were expected to never leave the house. However, many women disagreed with this way of living life. They believed in the radical idea of equality. Women who found equality a worthy cause to fight for began fighting for it. This movement earned the title of “First-Wave Feminism.” The first official meeting organised to discuss gender inequality took place in Seneca Falls, New York at the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention. After this meeting, the idea of feminism spread across the Atlantic Ocean and found itself in Europe, where women in many countries were even more disadvantaged than American women. For the most part, these feminists fought for political power, specifically the right to vote, but some women had the audacity to ask for rights such as education as well. This first fight for feminism eventually led to women’s suffrage in many countries, such as Finland, Australia, and some US states, and encourages