Student Handout: Chapter 26

Reading Questions 1) How did new technologies in the latter half of the nineteenth century revolutionize everyday life and transformed the world’s economy? What were some of those new technologies, and how did they affect society? 2) Why did the population of Euro-America cities grow so fast between 1850 and 1914, and how did technological transformation in those cities affect urban life? 3) What economic factors caused the boom and bust cycles of the nineteenth century in Europe and America? 4) How did the Victorians conceive of the roles of men, women, and the family? To what extent are Victorian ideal influential in contemporary western society? 5) What is nationalism and how did it affect European and North American societies and politics? 6) Explain the reasons for mass migration during the late nineteenth century. 7) How did nationalism compel people to unite with others similar to them? How did nationalism tear other countries apart? Give specific examples. 8) Discuss how industrialism spurred development in countries outside Europe, especially the United States and Japan. Explain the societal changes resulting from industrializations. 9) Why did certain countries become ‘great powers’ while others did no? 10) Discuss the rise of socialism, labor unions, and the women’s movement. How were they responses to ills caused by industrialization and nationalism? 11) Compare the development of the Industrial Revolution in Japan and the United States in the nineteenth century to Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 12) What were the immediate and long-term results of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s response to the threat of Euro-American invasions?

Map Exercises A (755) 1. Describe how Camillo di Cavour united northern Italy and Giuseppe Garibaldi united southern Italy. 2) What state is responsible for Italian unification? 3) What other states did the ‘core’ nation acquire? B (757) 1) Describe how Otto von Bismarck united the German states from 1864-1871. 2) What state is responsible for German unification? 3) What other states did the ‘core’ nation acquire? C (759) 1. Discuss the Japanese path to imperialism. 2) What was the Japanese “sphere of influence”? 3) What areas were colonized? 4) Indicate the major Japanese manufacturing centers and railroad systems between 1889 and 1918.