1. How were the technological improvements in agriculture and the Enclosure Acts crucial to the development of the Industrial Revolution in England?
2. How were the technological improvements
in agriculture and the economic structures created during the Commercial
Revolution crucial to the development of the Industrial Revolution in
England?
3. How was the steam engine the
technological invention that made the Industrial Revolution by powering
the changes in industry, transportation and society that define the
Industrial Revolution?
4. How well does the following quote
describe the conditions in the industrial cities? “From this foul drain,
the greatest stream of human industry flows. Here humanity attains its most complete
development and its most brutish; here civilization works it miracles, and
civilized man in turned back almost into a savage.”
5. How does the quote, “In the midst of
plethoric plenty, the people perish” describe the conditions of industrial
cities? The word “plethoric”
means abundance or great amount.
6. How did the brutality of urbanization
that resulted from the Industrial Revolution result in new city
governments that used government money to redesign and redevelop cities?
7. Why did liberals believe that the best
way to lower poverty was to support the repeal of the Corn Laws that taxed
imports of food, oppose any type of government imposed minimum wage for
workers, and oppose government assistance to the poor?
8. How was the disagreement between
liberals and democratic socialists over the nature of capitalism connected
to a disagreement over whether urban workers should have voting rights?
9. How did improvements in cities and worker’s
lives during the later part of the nineteenth century (the Age of
Progress) refute Karl Marx’s ideas and justify those of Alfred Marshall?
10. How did the Age of Progress see the
application of science to technology for the purpose of improving people’s
lives?
