AP®︎ European History: Topic 6.3 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 6.3 of AP European History – Second Wave Industrialization and Its Effects.
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Topic 6.3
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-3.1.III
What did the Second Industrial Revolution primarily focus on enhancing?
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Topic 6.3: Second Wave Industrialization and Its Effects
Thematic Focus: Technological and Scientific InnovationTSI
Scientific and technological innovations have increased efficiency, improved daily life, and shaped human development and interactions, having both intended and unintended consequences.
Learning Objective: Unit 6: Learning Objective C
Explain how innovations and advances in technology during the Industrial Revolutions led to economic and social change.
Historical Developments: KC-3.1.III.A
Mechanization and the factory system became the predominant modes of production by 1914.
Historical Developments: KC-3.1.III.B
New technologies and means of communication and transportation—including railroads— resulted in more fully integrated national economies, a higher level of urbanization, and a truly global economic network.
Historical Developments: KC-3.2.IV.B
New, efficient methods of transportation and other innovations created new industries, improved the distribution of goods, increased consumerism, and enhanced quality of life.
Thematic Focus: Economic and Commercial DevelopmentsECD
Economic development, especially the development of capitalism, played an important role in Europe's history, often having significant social, political, and cultural effects.
Learning Objective: Unit 6: Learning Objective D
Explain how industrialization influenced economic and political development throughout the period from 1815 to 1914.
Historical Developments: KC-3.1.III
During the second industrial revolution (c. 1870-1914), more areas of Europe experienced industrial activity, and industrial processes increased in scale and complexity.
Historical Developments: KC-3.1.III.C
Volatile business cycles in the last quarter of the 19th century led corporations and governments to try to manage the market through a variety of methods, including monopolies, banking practices, and tariffs.
Historical Developments: KC-3.2.II.A
Along with better harvests caused in part by the commercialization of agriculture, industrialization promoted population growth, longer life expectancy, and lowered infant mortality.
Historical Developments: KC-3.2.IV
A heightened consumerism developed as a result of the second industrial revolution.
Historical Developments: KC-3.2.IV.A
Industrialization and mass marketing increased both the production and demand for a new range of consumer goods—including clothing, processed foods, and labor-saving devices—and created more leisure opportunities.
Historical Developments: KC-3.2.IV.A
Industrialization in Prussia allowed that state to become the leader of a unified Germany, which subsequently underwent rapid industrialization under government sponsorship.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Manchester, England
- The Krupp family (Essen, Germany)
- Bessemer process
- Mass production
- Electricity
- Chemicals
- Telegraph
- Steamship
- Streetcars or trolley cars
- Telephones
- Internal combustion engine
- Airplane
- Radio
- Steamships
- Railroads
- Refrigerated rail cars
- Ice boxes
- Streetcars
- Bicycles
- Chemical industry
- Electricity and utilities
- Automobile
- Leisure travel
- Professional and leisure sport
- Advertising
- Department stores
- Catalogs
- Zollverein
- Investment in transportation network
- Adoption of improved methods of manufacturing
- Friedrich List's National System
