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QR Challenge: The Impact of the Industrial Age

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Question 1. What were the workers and the factory owners/ managers known as after the Industrial RevolutionThe workers were known as the proletariat and the factory owners and managers were known as the bourgeoisie.
Question 2. Why was there an increase in the European population at this time? The increase in the European population was due to increased food production, gradual improvements in living conditions and medical advances.
Question 3. What did the British Factor Act 1883 aim to do?It regulated the employment of children and improved working conditions in mines and factories.
Question 4. What did the middle class demand in this period?They demanded greater representation in government, along with political and personal rights.
Question 5. What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution on warfare?Larger quantities of armaments were now produced.
Question 6. By how much did the European population grow from 1814 to 1914?By 260 million.
Question 7. Which class’ living conditions were the first to benefit from the technology of the Industrial Revolution? Which class was the first to be negative effected and why?The middle class and the lower class.
Question 8. What did the early 19th century liberals believe in?Freedom of thought, religion, economic restrictions, trade, from political injustice and suppression.
Question 9. What happened in 1816?Hungry British peasants rioted and looted the property of their landowners. The leaders of the demonstration were hanged or transported.
Question 10. Which two movements arose during this period and what were they trying to accomplish?Trade unionism, in which workers united and used collective bargaining to organise better working conditions and higher pay. Chartism, which aimed to secure real political rights for the British masses.
Question 11. Where were women first given the vote?SA and NZ.
Question 12. When did the American Revolution break out?1776.
Question 13. What are the five reasons given that contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution?Government inefficiency, extravagance and corruption; crippling taxation combined with slow growth in industry and commerce; unemployment and rapid growth of urban slums; absolute power of the king combined with a growing middle class, or bourgeoisie, denied political rights; the rigid censorship of the press; and a lack of free speech and basic human rights, combined with the spread of the ideas that had inspired the American War of Independence.
Question 14. What ideals did the French Revolution espouse?Liberty, fraternity, equality.
Question 15. What role did nationalism play in the French Revolution?As foreign powers attacked revolutionary France, the French responded by creating the first truly national army in Europe. French soldiers were called to arms in the belief that they were fighting for France and for their freedom. Napoleon used the power of nationalism to build an army capable of conquering Europe.
Question 16. How did the Industrial Revolution bring people into greater contact?Through railways and improved trade links.
Question 17. Which was the first war of the industrialised world and why did it break out?The Crimean War (1853-56) that broke out because Britain and France were suspicious about Russia’s ambitions in the Balkans.
Question 18. How did the Industrial Revolution cause conflicts between European powers to be waged on a greater scale than ever before?Steamships and railways could now transport men and the provisions needed to wage war between the great European powers.
Question 19. How has the shape of the modern world been effected by nationalism?The formation of modern Germany and Italy.
Question 20. What do you think are the three most significant events on the timeline on page 24 and why?Up to students.

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