Economic, Social, and Political Change Worksheet
Agricultural Revolution
Respond to each of the following questions in 2 or 3 sentences:
1. What are the three most important factors that contributed to the agricultural revolution in Europe? The agricultural revolution took place courtesy of three key factors. These factors include warmer temperatures, the three-field system and better farming equipment. In which, contributed to the evolution of European living during medieval time.
2. How did the agricultural revolution change European society? Provide an example. The new found, more productive way of farming in Europe reduced the need of manual laboring workers. This eliminated many jobs on farm lands, yet created coil mining jobs to help power the machines used on the farm. For example the new invention that came through farming.
Industrial Revolution
Respond to each of the following questions in 2 or 3 sentences:
1. What are the three most important factors that contributed to the industrial revolution in Europe? Large population, capital, and people with scientific knowledge and entrepreneurial skills were among the social and economic factors that helped make the Industrial Revolution possible.
3. Describe working conditions in factories and mines between 1800 and 1850. What was life like for a typical worker? Reference at least one primary source to support your response. the working conditions was unbearable. There were many accidents when coal was brought to surface with buckets. Ropes that was used was extremely unstable workers fell to their deaths. There was also children who worked in the dark doe to the families being poor and could not provide candles.
Western Social Change Between 1815 and 1914
Write 2 or 3 sentences per concept about how each of the following changed in Western society between 1815 and 1914:
1. Romanticism was an artistic literary and intellectual movement