The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact
What were the basic features of the new industrial system created by the Industrial
Revolution, and what effects did the new system have on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards of living?
The Growth of Industrial Prosperity
What was the Second Industrial Revolution, and what effects did it have on economic
and social life?
What were the main ideas of Karl Marx, and what role did they play in politics and the union movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
Reaction and Revolution: The Growth of Nationalism
What were the major ideas associated with conservatism, liberalism, and nationalism, and what role did each ideology play in Europe between 1800 and 1850? What were the causes of the revolutions of 1848, and why did these revolutions fail?
How did Europe’s major powers manipulate territory to decrease the probability that
France could again threaten the Continent’s stability?
