UNIT FIVE: INDUSTRIALIZATION IN WESTERN EUROPE
Unit 5: Industrialization in Western Europe (Chapters 20 and 22)
Terms: Define the following as they pertain to the historical topic at hand.
Term
Agricultural Revolution
Enclosure
Factories
Urbanization
Tenements
Labor Unions
Utilitarianism
Define
Importance (why is this
significant?)
Socialism
Communism
Proletariat
Assembly Line
Stock
Cartel
Cult of Domesticity
Temperance movement
Women’s Suffrage
Social Darwinism
People: Identify the following individuals
Individual
What did he/she believe in or
do?
James Watt
Thomas Newcomen
Adam Smith
Jeremy Bentham
Robert Owen
Karl Marx
Map Activity: answer the questions based on the map below:
What did he/she write (if
anything) or invent?
1) Name at least three large cities (more than
300,00 people) that were located near coal or iron ore.
2) Explain the relationship between the natural
resources and the growth of cities.
Charts: Complete the chart using information from class as well as your textbook.
A) Causes of the Industrial Revolution (fill in information about each category)
Agricultural Revolution
Population Explosion
New Technology
Natural Resources
Source Analysis: Use the documents to answer the following questions. Use complete sentences.
Answer the questions using the chart below:
Table 1: Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRwages.htm
1)
What group of people made the most money? Why do you think that is?
2) At what age group do we see a divergence in the wages of men and women? Why do you think
that is?
Summary Questions: Answer the following questions in 3+ full sentences
1)
What factors does Britain have that allows it to happen in that nation rather than another
country?
2) Describe conditions in factories and newly created cities. Is this better/worse than living on a
farm before the Industrial Revolution? Why/why not?
3) What sorts of conditions lead to the formation of beliefs by Karl Marx and Thomas Malthus?
4) What kinds of long term effects does the Industrial Revolution have on European nations and
the rest of the world?