The West in the World, 4th Edition (Sherman)

Chapter 17: Factories, Cities, and Families in the Industrial Age

Essay Quiz

1
How do you explain why Britain industrialized before other European nations and non-Western societies such as China?
2
What do you think were the three most important inventions of the industrial age? How did they change the production process?
3
In what ways did moving from the countryside to the city change people's lives during this period?
4
How did industrialization change the environment during the 1800s? What was the environmental impact of specific inventions?
5
Why did workers develop a sense of class-consciousness during this period of industrialization?
6
Why did the emergence of separate men's and women's spheres accompany industrialization and urbanization?
7
Why did conflict develop between middle-class values and the urban and industrial realities facing the working class in this period? What was the nature of that conflict?
8
How did the evolution of the middle-class family and the working-class family differ during the 1800s?
9
How did urbanization exacerbate existing social problems?
10
How and why did the degree of industrialization experienced by individual countries influence the balance of power within Europe?
Sherman: The West in the World, Fourth Edition
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