🏭 Industrial Revolution Flashcards
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What was the Catholic Church’s overall response to the Industrial Revolution?
The Church responded by promoting workers’ rights, condemning social injustice, expanding charitable services, and issuing key teachings like Rerum Novarum.
What key Church document addressed the effects of the Industrial Revolution?
Rerum Novarum (1891) by Pope Leo XIII.
What did Rerum Novarum teach?
It defended workers’ rights, supported fair wages, endorsed the right to form unions, rejected both socialism and unregulated capitalism, and emphasized family and property.
How did the Church support the poor during industrialization?
Through religious orders that ran schools, hospitals, and orphanages, especially in urban areas.
What role did parishes play during the Industrial Revolution?
They served as community centers offering food, shelter, education, and moral support to the working class.
How did the Church engage in advocacy during this time?
Clergy and Catholic reformers spoke out against exploitation, while Catholic media promoted social justice.
when was the industrial revolution
took place between 1750 - 1900
what was the industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution brought immense economic change, urbanization, and social disruption, including exploitation of workers, poor working and living conditions, and growing inequality.
social teaching and moral guidance
Rerum Novarum (1891): Although this encyclical by Pope Leo XIII came just after Queen Victoria’s reign, it was the culmination of the Church’s growing concern about the effects of industrial capitalism. It:
Defended the rights of workers to fair wages and decent working conditions.
Opposed both unregulated capitalism and socialism.
Supported the right to form labor unions.
Emphasized the dignity of work and the importance of the family and private property.
support for the poor
Religious orders (like the Sisters of Mercy and Jesuits) expanded schools, hospitals, and orphanages, especially in urban centers affected by industrial growth.
Parishes became centers of community support, offering food, shelter, and education to working-class Catholics, particularly in industrial cities.
advocacy and mission work
Clergy and Catholic social reformers often spoke out against child labor and unsafe working conditions.
Catholic newspapers and conferences spread awareness of social injustices, encouraging political and moral reform.
