AP®︎ World History: Topic 5.9 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 5.9 of AP World History – Society and the Industrial Age.
Questions List
Topic 5.9
Question 1 Easy
Child Employment in Manufacturing, Britain, 1830-1880
Source: Historical estimates
Which of the following best explains the decline in child factory employment shown in the chart?
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Society and the Industrial Age
Thematic Focus: Social Interactions and OrganizationSIO
The process by which societies group their members and the norms that govern the interactions between these groups and between individuals influence political, economic, and cultural institutions and organization.
Learning Objective: Unit 5: Learning Objective J
Explain how industrialization caused change in existing social hierarchies and standards of living.
Historical Developments: KC-5.1.VI.A
New social classes, including the middle class and the industrial working class, developed.
Historical Developments: KC-5.1.VI.B
While women and often children in working class families typically held wage-earning jobs to supplement their families' income, middle-class women who did not have the same economic demands to satisfy were increasingly limited to roles in the household or roles focused on child development.
Historical Developments: KC-5.1.VI.C
The rapid urbanization that accompanied global capitalism at times led to a variety of challenges, including pollution, poverty, increased crime, public health crises, housing shortages, and insufficient infrastructure to accommodate urban growth.
