Unit 12: Paper 2 — Origins, Development and Impact of Industrialization (1750–2005)
Topic 12.3: Impact of industrialization Questions
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Which disease spread through the polluted water of industrial cities in the 1830s and 1840s?
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How long was a typical working day in an early industrial factory?
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Who authored The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848?
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In the new industrial class structure, what did the industrial working class own?
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Which pairing correctly matches a society with its response to industrialization?
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Which type of housing was typical for workers in the fast-growing industrial cities?
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Which British law of 1871 gave trade unions legal protection?
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In the standard-of-living debate, what do the optimist historians argue?
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What did the Mines Act of 1842 make illegal?
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Discuss the standard-of-living debate among historians of industrialization.
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Analyse the reasons why one society industrialized rapidly yet met the resulting social costs with a top-down state response.
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Who introduced the world's first state social insurance system in response to industrialization?
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Discuss the view that industrialization created similar problems but very different political outcomes across the societies you have studied.
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Examine the reasons why working-class movements failed to achieve their immediate political aims in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Examine the effects of industrialization on the working and living conditions of the industrial working class.
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Discuss the impact of reforming laws on the lives of industrial workers in one country you have studied.
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Compare and contrast the experience of the industrial working class and the rising middle class during industrialization.
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Examine the reasons why living conditions in industrial cities were so poor.
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To what extent did industrialization lead to the growth of new political ideologies?
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Evaluate the view that industrialization did more harm than good to the lives of ordinary workers.
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