The Mixed Blessing of Industrialization

20.3: Hardships in Early Industrial Life

  1. List three challenges posed by the process of urbanization.

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2. According to the text, what is a significant way in which farm work differed from factory work?

  1. List two reasons why an industrial employer might prefer to hire women.
  1. What is the significance of Patience Kershaw’s testimony to the Ashley Mines Commission?
  1. a. Why did Luddites revolt?

b. Why do you think that the British government crush these revolts and prosecuted the rebels?

  1. Why do think that Methodism became popular in Britain at this time?
  1. List two ways that the rise of the middle class was significant in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.

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  1. Given what you have read so far list three benefits and three drawbacks to Industrialization.

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20.4: New Ways of Thinking

9. a. What is the “free market”?

b. According to Adam Smith, what are the benefits of the free market system?

c. What do you think might be the disadvantages of the free market system?

  1. Summarize Ricardo’s “iron law of wages”.
  1. a. Describe Bentham’s idea of utilitarianism

b. Apply the theory of utilitarianism to something in your society.

  1. Define socialism
  1. Describe Robert Owens’ utopian experiment in New Lanark.
  1. a. Define Communism

b. In Marxism the “haves” are the ______and the “have nots” are the ______.

c. Why did Marx despise capitalism?

d. Describe two weaknesses of Marxism as presented in the text.

  1. Examine the cause and effect chart on page 562 to write a 3-5 sentence paragraph entitled “the mixed blessing of industrialization”.

22.3: Changing Attitudes and Values

16. Draw a five-tiered triangular diagram of the new social class structure of 19th Century Europe. Be sure to label each tier.

  1. Describe how courtship and marriage changed during 19th Century Industrialism.
  1. How was the role of middle class women drastically different from the role of working class women?
  1. a. How did industrialization contribute to the rise of the women’s rights movement (think about it…)?

b. List three arguments against women’s suffrage.

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  1. How and why did industrialization create a growing demand for schools? Think about it…
  1. a. Summarize Darwin’s theory as presented in Origin of Species.

b. Define Social Darwinism.

c. Ignore what the book says. Do you think the idea of Social Darwinism is inherently racist? Why or why not?

21. a. What was the social gospel movement?

b. How was the social gospel movement a necessary reaction to the evils of industrialization?

22.4: A New Culture

22. a. What is romanticism?

b. Cite two romantic artists and explain what makes them romantics

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c. How was romanticism a response to the harsh realities of industrialization?

23. Use evidence to suggest the significance of Beethoven.

24. a. What is realism?

b. Cite two realist artists and explain what makes them realists.

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25. What is impressionism?

26. Overall, the Industrial Revolution was (circle one)

more bad than good

more good than bad