Chapter 22 Industrialization, Urbanization, and Revolution, 1830-1850

AP FRQ Essays:

• Analyze how economic and social developments affected women in England in the period from 1700 to 1850. (2005A)
• Analyze the shifts in the European balance of power in the period between 1763 and 1848. (2004B)
• Analyze three examples of the relationship between Romanticism and nationalism before 1850. (2003 A)
• Compare and contrast political liberalism with political conservatism in the first half of the nineteenth century in Europe. (2003 B)

• Discuss how the two structures shown above reflect the societies and cultures that produced them. (2006B)

Other Potential Essays:

• Describe the events of 1848 in two of the following countries: France, Austria, or Prussia.
• What factors enabled England to take the lead in industrialization?
• Compare and contrast political liberalism with political conservatism in the first half of the nineteenth century in Europe.
• In February 1848, the middle classes and workers in France joined to overthrow the government of Louis Philippe.  By June the two groups were at odds in their political, economic, and social thinking.  Analyze what transpired to divide the groups and describe the consequences for French politics.
• 1848 was a critical year for the conservative interests trying to maintain the ways of the Ancien Regime.  Discuss three of the "revolutions" of 1848 and evaluate the ways in which they put an end to the old order.
• Compare and contrast the roles of British working women in the pre-industrial economy (before 1750) with their roles in the mid19th century.
• Between 1815 and 1848 the condition of the laboring classes and the problem of political stability were critical issues in England.  Describe and analyze the reforms that social critics and politicians of this period proposed to resolve these problems.