Global Awareness

Unit 14 – The Late 19^th Century

 

Unit Readings: WH Chapters 24-25

                         MEH Chapter 26

 

 

1.      Discuss the most important trends and changes in European industry in the latter half of the 19^th century

·          Second Industrial Revolution

·          Germany!

·          Henry Bessemer & Steel

·          Gottlieb Daimler & the Internal Combustion Engine

 

2.      Why and in what ways was Paris redesigned and improved in the latter part of the 19^th century?

·          Napoleon III

·          Georges Haussmann

·          Cholera

 

3.      Discuss the efforts of European laborers to improve their conditions in the late 19^th century and the new ideas that emerged about how to do so

·          Labor Unions (now legal!)

·          Extension of Franchise & Growth of Political Parties

·          Karl Marx & The First International (1864)

·          The Fabian Society

·          Eduard Bernstein & Revisionism

·          Bismarck’s social welfare program

 

4.      Identify briefly…

·          The Crystal Palace

·          The Cult of Domesticity