Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0830 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Sequencing Industrialization, 1750 to 1871
The idea
The exam hands you inventions and laws out of order and asks which came first. The method is three fixed points: Watt's condenser in seventeen seventy-four, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in eighteen thirty, and the repeal of the Corn Laws in eighteen forty-six. Inventions cluster before the first, laws after the second.
In practice
Place seven events. The power loom: seventeen eighty-seven, after Watt. The Corn Laws: eighteen fifteen, before the railway. Peterloo: eighteen nineteen, after the Corn Laws. The Reform Bill: eighteen thirty-two, two years after the railway. The Factory Act: thirty-three, the next year. The People's Charter: thirty-eight, before repeal. The Mines Act: forty-two, still before repeal. The Ten Hours Act: forty-seven, the year after. Unions legalized: eighteen seventy-one, last. The order reads Watt, loom, Corn Laws, Peterloo, railway, Reform Bill, Factory Act, Charter, Mines Act, repeal, Ten Hours, unions.
Where people slip
The anchor's seventeen sixty-three for Watt and eighteen thirty for the telegraph are early; the witness's seventeen seventy-four and the standard eighteen thirties do not change the order. The Reform Act of eighteen sixty-seven is absent from every source and is not placed.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- 0802A Revolution That Took a Century: 1750, 1830, 1860 to 1914
- 0806Watt's Engine: From Pumping Mines to Turning Wheels
- 0811Railways: Manchester to Liverpool, 1830, and Time Zones
- 0815The Corn Laws, 1815, and Wages at Subsistence
- 0820Factory Act 1833, Mines Act 1842, Ten Hours 1847
- 0827The Reform Act of 1832
- 0829Trade Unions: From the Combination Act to Legalization, 1871
Unlocks
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