The test will have the same format as the previous test, the one on Nationalism. You will be given two questions, you will have draw reasoning diagram for both questions and write a topic sentence that you would use to answer both questions. You will then have to write an answer to one of the questions.
1. How did changes in agriculture, finance and technology come together to create the Industrial Revolution?
2. How did the Industrial Revolution change where and how people worked and lived – and in the long run, the quality of their lives?
3. How did the Age of Progress represent the triumph of liberal values that a society based on democracy and capitalism would result in a happier and wealthier society?
4. How did the conditions of workers in the early part of the Industrial Revolution support the position of socialists?
1. How did changes in agriculture, finance and technology come together to create the Industrial Revolution?
2. How did the Industrial Revolution change where and how people worked and lived – and in the long run, the quality of their lives?
3. How did the Age of Progress represent the triumph of liberal values that a society based on democracy and capitalism would result in a happier and wealthier society?
4. How did the conditions of workers in the early part of the Industrial Revolution support the position of socialists?
5. How did improvements cities and worker’s lives during the later part of the nineteenth century (the Age of Progress) refute Karl Marx’s communist ideas and support the liberal capitalist ideas of Alfred Marshall?
6. How did the technological improvements in agriculture and the economic institutions created during the Commercial Revolution provide crucial building blocks for the development of the Industrial Revolution in England?
7. Nineteenth century French philosopher Émile Durkheim once said, “Socialism is not a science…. It is a cry of pain”. Considering the living and working conditions of workers during the Industrial Revolution, would it correct for Durkheim to describe socialism this way?
8. Socialist-Anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said, “All profit is theft” and liberal economist Alfred Marshall believed that capitalism could “make every man a gentleman” (gentleman meant someone with enough free time to think of things besides making money). How do these quotes reflect how socialists and liberals thought of capitalism?
6. How did the technological improvements in agriculture and the economic institutions created during the Commercial Revolution provide crucial building blocks for the development of the Industrial Revolution in England?
7. Nineteenth century French philosopher Émile Durkheim once said, “Socialism is not a science…. It is a cry of pain”. Considering the living and working conditions of workers during the Industrial Revolution, would it correct for Durkheim to describe socialism this way?
8. Socialist-Anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon said, “All profit is theft” and liberal economist Alfred Marshall believed that capitalism could “make every man a gentleman” (gentleman meant someone with enough free time to think of things besides making money). How do these quotes reflect how socialists and liberals thought of capitalism?
