Social Sciences and History / Unit 16 SSH 1516 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
The Industrial Revolution in Four Voices: Reading the Same Event Across Bands
The idea
The exam names industrialization in three history bands, in geography and in economics, and asks a different question in each, so the learner must recognize which voice a stem speaks. Western civilization, at 0324 to 0326, asks why Britain first and what resulted: coal, canals, capital and a surplus rural population, then urbanization. World history, at 0526 and 0527, asks what the world did with it: mechanization, Marx's response, and the second industrial revolution's export economies. United States history, at 0103 to 0110, asks about big business, wage labor and the sequence of consequences. Geography, at 1129, asks where: Europe's move from cottage to factory to city. Economics, at 1313, asks how much: about two percent a year since the early nineteenth century.
In practice
Given "why did Britain industrialize first", Western civilization, 0324. Given "what did factories do to Manchester", 0326. Given "how did workers respond", world history's 0530 or United States history's 0104. Given "which region shows the cottage-to-city pattern", geography, 1129. Given "what growth rate did it begin", economics, 1313. Ask what discipline the stem's nouns belong to.
Where people slip
The trap is answering a geography stem with a history fact or an economics stem with a date; the same event carries five kinds of question. The second trap is sample question ten, which sits in Western civilization and asks for a result, not a cause.
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