Check Your Understanding Questions
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In what ways did nineteenth-century industrialization lead to lower death rates and longer life spans?
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Why did child labor in factories become less common in western Europe and the United States by the end of the nineteenth century?
3
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How did industrialization affect family size in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?
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What made nineteenth-century industrial cities so dirty?
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What were the causes of disease in nineteenth-century industrial cities?
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What were the advantages of city life?
7
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By what means did White people in the southern United States legally force African American people to work for them after the abolition of slavery?
8
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What steps led to the abolition of slavery in Brazil in 1888?
9
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For what similar reasons did European and Asian emigrants move to other countries in the nineteenth century?
10
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To what extent was race a factor in the treatment of immigrants by their host countries?
11
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Why did the working class sometimes resent the attempts of the middle class to pass legislation intended to help them?
12
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How did nineteenth-century governments and reformers try to prevent the spread of disease in the industrial city?
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What were Samuel Smiles and Herbert Spencer’s ideas regarding the poor?