Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0326 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Industrialization's Results: Reading the Claims
The idea
Sample question ten asks what industrialization did to nineteenth-century Western Europe, and the key is that it increased urbanization. The anchor's own sentence is that urbanization was the most noteworthy transformation of daily life, and its example is Manchester: about twenty thousand people in seventeen fifty, forty thousand in seventeen seventy-five, two hundred fifty thousand in eighteen thirty-one, four hundred thousand in eighteen fifty. The mechanism: factories near coal and canals needed labor, and surplus rural population supplied it. The other results the anchor lists are secondary in the exam's sense: railways shrinking distance, mass print, middle-class holidays, new class divisions, abysmal living conditions.
In practice
Look for the option that names a change in where people lived. Distractors will name results that are true but not primary, or that reverse the direction: a return to the countryside, a fall in population, a decline in trade. Given "the most noteworthy social transformation", urbanization. Given "the anchor's example city", Manchester. Given "what drew workers to cities", the factories' demand for labor.
Where people slip
The trap is confusing cause with result. Population growth and commercial agriculture were causes of industrialization; urbanization was its result. The exam separates them.
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