Chapter 24: Life in the Emerging Urban Society (Read pp. 787 – 817)
Terms:Persons:
- Miasmatic theory 1. Jeremy Bentham
- Germ theory 2. Edwin Chadwick
- Working class3. Louis Pasteur
3.Middle class4. Joseph Lister
- Labor aristocracy5. Napoleon III
- Territorial church6. Baron Georges Haussmann
- Thermodynamics7. Gustave Droz
- Organic chemistry8. Sigmund Freud
- Positive method9. Dmitri Mendeleev
- Evolution10. Auguste Comte
- Social Darwinism11. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
12. Charles Darwin
13. Emile Zola
14. Honore de Balzac
15.Count Leo Tolstoy
Chapter 24 Reading Questions (pp. 787-793)
1. Describe the conditions of cities in the middle ages, and discuss the challenges faced by the cities of the 19th
century due to industrialism.
2. Summarize the scientific and medical advancements which created a significant decline in the death rate during
the 19th century?
3. Discuss the improvements in urban planning of the 19th century & the role of Paris, France in this development.
Chapter 24 Reading Questions (pp. 794-805)
4. Analyze the impact of the industrial revolution on the standard of living for the poor, and to what degree these
changes closed the gap between rich and poor.
5. Describe the middle class structure that developed in the 19th century and the differences that distinguished
the different groups within the middle class.
6. Describe the social hierarchy within the working classes, and discuss how the upper working class differed from
the others.
7. Images in Society (pp. 800-801) – Analyze the change in fashion for women from the 19th to the 20th century
and how these changes could reflect a changing role of women in society.
8. Discuss the changes in leisure and religion for the working class during the 19th century.
Chapter 24 Reading Questions (pp. 805-812)
9. Discuss the varying conditions of marriage and premarital sex among the social classes, and the role of
prostitution with in society.
10. Analyze the development of separate spheres within working class families and how this development led to
discrimination of women in the work place and society in general.
11. Discuss the two feminist movements that developed in the mid and late 19th century by identifying their goals
and the barriers that prevented them.
12. Individuals in Society (pg. 809) – How does Franziska Tiburtius’s life reflect both the challenges and the changing
roles of middle-class women in the later 19th century?
13. Summarize the changes in child rearing during the 19th century, and how these changes led to negative reactions
by adolescent children.
Chapter 24 Reading Questions (pp. 812-817)
14. Summarize Darwin’s theory of evolution and discuss how Spencer applied this theory to 9th century society with
social Darwinism.
15. Explain how the work of Realist differed from literature of earlier centuries.
Chapter 25: The Age of Nationalism, 1850-1914 (Pages 823-850)
Terms:Persons:
1.The SecondRepublic (France)1.Louis Napoleon III
2. Austro-Prussian War2.Giuseppe Mazzini
3.Franco-Prussian War3.Count Camillo Benso di Cavour
4.Crimean War4.Giuseppe Garibaldi
5.Zemstvo5.Victor Emmanuel
6.Russo-Japanese War, 19046.King William I of Prussia
7.Revolution of 19057.Otto von Bismarck
8.October Manifesto8.Tsar Alexander II
9.Duma9.Tsar Alexander III
10.Reichstag10.Sergei Witte
11.Kulturkampf11.Adolphe Thiers
12.German Social Democratic Party12.David Lloyd George
13.Paris Commune13.Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
14.Dreyfus Affair14.Karl Lueger
15.Zionism15. Theodore Herzl
16.Revisionism16. Edward Bernstein
Chapter 25 Reading Questions (pg. 823-833)
1.Identify the three reasons Louis Napoleon Bonaparte won the presidential election of 1848.
2.Summarize the successful policies of Napoleon III as emperor of the 2nd Republic, and the causes of his fall from
power.
3.Identify the three basic approaches for Italian unification which emerged between 1815 and 1848.
4.Listening to the Past (pp. 784-785) – What did Mazzini mean by evil governments? How did he define the
characteristics of a “true country”?
5.Analyze the methods used by Cavour in unifying Italy, and discuss how his methods differed from those of Garibaldi.
6.Analyze the role of the Zollverein, William I, and Otto von Bismarck in bring about the unification of Germany.
7.Explain how Bismarck was able to bring the liberal middle class of Germany under his control from 1848 to 1868.
8.How did the Franco-Prussian War lead to German unification? And how did the war differ from the Franco-Prussian
War of 1866?
Chapter 25 Reading Questions (pg. 833-846)
9.How did the Crimean War of 1853 to 1856 lead to Russian modernization?
10.Summarize the reforms instituted in Russia from 1861 to 1905.
11.Explain how the Russo-Japanese War of 1904 led to the Revolution of 1905, and identify the liberal changes that
resulted from it.
12. Discuss the attempts by Bismarck to establish a conservative autocracy in Germany from 1866 to 1890, and
identify the social measures he adopted to help the working class.
13. Identify the moderate reforms made in France following the violence of 1871.
14. Analyze the impact of the Dreyfus affair on French nationalism and the image of the Catholic establishment.
15. Identify the reforms made by the Liberal party in Great Britain starting in 1906.
16. Explain how nationalism weakened the Austrian Empire starting in 1871.
17. Why did the stock market crash of 1873 lead to widespread anti-Semitism in Europe, and how did the Jewish
population respond?
Chapter 25 Reading Questions (pg. 846-850)
18.Individuals in Society (p. 847) – How did Theodore Herzl work as a leader to turn his Zionist vision into a reality?
19.What was the socialist international? What were its objectives?
20.Analyze the reasons behind a more moderate labor movement in the mid to late 19th century.