Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871 – 1894
An Age of Modernity and Anxiety, 1894 - 1914
Spielvogel Chapters 23 & 24
(71 Points Possible)
Terms : You will be assigned one or more of the following. Be prepared to present a concise multimedia
presentation on your topic. (graded separately, notes in notebook)
1. New Products and New Markets
2. New Patterns in an Industrial Economy
3. Women & Work: New Job Opportunities
4. New patterns for European agriculture
5. Revisionism and Nationalism/Anarchist Alternative
6. The Role of Trade Unions
7. Emergence of Mass Society (Population Growth)
8. Transformation of the Urban Environment
9. The Social Structure of Mass Society
10. The “Woman Question”: The Role of Women
11. Education & Leisure in an Age of Mass Society
12. Western Europe: The Growth of Political
Democracy
13. Central & Eastern Europe: Persistence of the
Old Order
14. Developments in the Sciences: The
Emergence of a New Physics
15. Toward a New Understanding of the Irrational
16. Sigmund Freud & the Emergence of
Psychoanalysis
17. The Impact of Darwinism & Racism
18. Attack on Christianity & Response of
Churches
19. The Culture of Modernity
20. The Movement for Women’s Rights
21. Jews within the European Nation-State
Chapter 23 Questions
1. What is meant by the term “Second Industrial Revolution?” How did this revolution change European
economics? (2 points)
2. Describe the European class structure that emerged after 1871. How was it like and unlike that of the past
and what sort of problems did it create? (3 points)
3. What place did women have in the Second Industrial Revolution? How did they react to their lot? (2 points)
4. What factors contributed to the growth of the population in Europe? What country experienced a decrease
in population? Why? (2 points)
5. Discuss the political development of Britain between 1871 and 1893. To what degree did it and did it not
become a democracy? (2 points)
6. Explain and describe why France became an “unstable” democracy after 1871. What could have given it
more stability? (2 points)
7. What form did the new German State take? What parts did Bismarck and William II play in its formation? (2
points)
Chapter 24 Questions
8. What role did liberalism play in British politics? What was the overall outcome? (2 points)
9. What led to tensions in Germany? Draw a political spectrum and place the following groups on the
continuum. Justify why you placed each where you did. Nationalists, Social Democratic Party, Pan-German
League, and land owning nobility. (5 points)
10. Trace Russia’s history between 1894 and 1907. How does its history during this time period help explain the
revolution it faced in 1917? (3 points)
11. Describe the “New Imperialism” of the late nineteenth century. How was it different from the earlier
imperialism? What were its causes and results? (4 points)
12. How did Europe’s Asian and African empires differ? Why? What were the reactions of China, Japan and
India to these empires? (5 points)
Chapter 23 Primary Sources
1. “Advice to Women: Be Dependent”: What response would a feminist – both then and now – make to
Elizabeth Poole Sanford’s advice to women? (2 points)
2. “The Voice of Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstien”: What difference did Eduard Bernstien have with
the original Marxist view of history? To what extent was he still a Marxist’s? (2 points)
Chapter 24 Primary Sources
3. “Freud and the Concept of Repression”: What do you learn of Freud’s methodology by reading his lecture
on repression? (1 point)
4. “Advice to Women: Be Independent”: What problems might many late 19th century women have had
listening to Nora’s conversion with Helmer in A Doll’s House? (2 points)
5. “The Voice of Zionism: Theodore Herzl and the Jewish State”: read only
6. “Russian Workers Appeal to the Tsar”: Discuss how the words of the petition brought to Tsar Nicholas II
indicate that the petitioners were not a threat to peace. What does their massacre tell you about the
Russian State at that time? (2 points)
7. “The White Man’s Burden” According to Kipling, what was “the white man’s burden,” how was he to bear it,
and what would be his reward? (3 points)
8. “The Black Man’s Burden”: Explain the damage colonialism did to African people, their society, and their
culture. (3 points)
Free Response Questions (from past A.P. Exams)
Respond to question 1. Write a complete outline as if you were writing for the A.P. Exam. Write out and
underline a complete thesis statement. Write out complete topic sentences for each body paragraph. List
(bullet) points that would be included in each body paragraph. Close with a concluding statement. (12 points)
Choose ONE of the remaining questions. Outline [as above] (10 points)
Consider how you would respond to the other questions.
1. Compare and contrast the effects of the First and Second Industrial Revolution on European economic and
social life.
2. What is meant by the term “mass society”, and what were its main characteristics?
3. Describe and evaluate how developments in science, intellectual affairs, and the arts in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries ‘opened the way to a modern consciousness,’ and how this consciousness differed from
earlier worldviews.
4. Compare and contrast the New Imperialism with Old Imperialism. Evaluate its [New Imperialism] impact on
Asia and Africa.