Social Sciences and History / Unit 16 SSH 1510 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Sample Question Ten: Industrialization's Result
The idea
The stem asks which was a result of industrialization in nineteenth-century Western Europe. The options: increased urbanization; overall decrease in population; increasing birthrates; decreasing literacy rates; decreasing rates of illegitimate births. The key is A. Entry 0326 carries the anchor's sentence that urbanization was the most noteworthy transformation of daily life, with Manchester as the example, and the mechanism, factories near coal and canals drawing surplus rural labor. The distractors: B reverses the century's population growth, which the demographic transition at 1006 places in stage two; C reverses the fertility decline that followed; D reverses mass print and schooling, taught at 0325 and 0330; E is not stated by the anchor. Unit 12's entry 1129 witnesses the same movement from cottage to factory to city for the geographer.
In practice
Look for a change in where people lived; every other option names a demographic or cultural direction the century ran the other way.
Where people slip
The trap is cause against result: population growth and commercial agriculture were causes; urbanization was the result. The exam separates them, and so does the course.
Your place on the trail
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