INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION DBQ

Question: How did the Industrial Revolution positively and negatively impact European society?

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Spread of Railways in Ten Selected Countries

(Length of line open [in kilometers [1km = 5/8 mile])

1840 1860 1880 1900

Austria-Hungary 144 4,543 18,507 36,330Belgium 334 1,730 4,112 4,591France 496 9,167 23,089 38,109Germany 469 11,089 33,838 51,678Great Britain 2,390 14,603 25,060 30,079Italy 20 2,404 9,290 16,429Netherlands 17 335 1,846 2,776Russia 27 1,626 22,865 53,234Spain - 1,917 7,490 13,214Sweden - 527 5,876 11,303

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Document 4Political cartoon criticizing European imperialism, late 1800s

Document 5Flora Tristan, French writer and political activist, The Workers’ Union, (1843)

Workers, you must leave behind division and isolation as quickly as possible and march courageously and fraternally down the only appropriate path—unity. . . The workers, the vital part of the nation, must create a huge union to assert their unity! Then, the working class will be strong; then it will be able to make itself heard…

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