Unit 4 Review

Unit 4 Review

World History Essay Practice

Thesis/Claim

2 points

Responses that earn thesis/claim points

The response must provide a historically defensible thesis or claim about the extent to which reform movements succeeded in bringing about political or social change in industrial society in the nineteenth century.

The thesis or claim must either provide some indication of the reasoning for making that claim OR by establishing analytic categories of the argument 

Thesis/Claim (2 points)

• Historically defensible

• Does not restate the prompt

• Has indication of a line of reasoning

• Not generalized

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Industrial societies in Europe experienced political revolutions and violence during the nineteenth century”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Nineteenth-century reform movements were successful in bringing about social change in industrial societies”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Nineteenth-century reform movements were somewhat successful in bringing about political change in industrial societies because more people received the right to vote”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Reform movements in the nineteenth century had only limited success in bringing about political change in industrial societies because governments were able to demonize reformers and coopt their agendas by enacting minor political changes that satisfied the majority of the population but did not fully address the complaints of reformers”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Reform movements brought about change socially, politically and economically”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“In the nineteenth century, reform movements brought about social change because they were able to convince governments to change labor laws.”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“In the nineteenth century, reform movements brought about social change because they were able to convince governments to change labor laws.”

• Yes

• No

Additional Notes:

• The thesis or claim must consist of one or more sentences located in one place, either in the introduction or the conclusion (which may not be limited to the first or last paragraphs).

• The thesis or claim must identify a relevant development(s) in the period, although it is not required to encompass the entire period. 

  
  

Contextualization

2 points

Responses that earn context points

Must accurately describe a context relevant to reform movements or industrial society in the nineteenth century.

Relevant context

• The development of industrial technologies 

• The spread of industrialization from Great Britain to other regions, such as northern Europe, the United States, Russia, or Japan 

• The development of new social classes in industrial societies 

Relevant context

• The development of social and economic philosophies, such as laissez- faire capitalism and socialism. 

• The development of various social reform movements in industrial societies, such as the women’s suffrage movement and the labor rights’ movement.

• The development of economic and social ideologies in response to the abuses of industrialization and capitalism, including various forms of socialism and communism. 

Relevant context

• The increased specialization of labor through the factory system.

• Increased urbanization in industrial societies.

• The second industrial revolution.

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“European transnational companies often supported the establishment of colonies in Africa in the hopes of extracting natural resources for factories in Europe”

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Advances in agriculture in Europe allowed for an increase in mechanization in the manufacturing of goods. This industrial revolution spread across Europe and to North America and led to challenges to traditional social and political structures”

• Yes

• No

Additional Notes:

• The response must relate the topic of the prompt to broader historical events, developments, or processes that occur before, during, or continue after the time frame of the question. 

• To earn this point, the context provided must be more than a phrase or reference.

Evidence

6 points

Responses that earn context points

• Responses that earn 1 point:

  Must identify a specific historical example relevant to reform movements or industrial society in the nineteenth century 

• Responses that earn 2 points:

  Must use specific historical evidence examples to support an argument regarding how reform movements brought about political or social change in industrial society in the nineteenth century 

Relevant Evidence

• The British government extending suffrage to all males in 1867

• The role of labor unions, socialists, anarchists, communists, and feminists in the Paris Commune of 1871

• The establishment of a social security system in Prussia under Otto von Bismarck 

Relevant Evidence

• The passage of child labor reform laws in Great Britain during the early nineteenth century

• Socialists and labor unions demanding the enactment of minimum wage and eight-hour workday Laws

• Labor rights movements, such as unions, proposing to limit working hours and increase wages

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“The Chartist movement emerged in Great Britain largely from the frustration that many working-class people felt about poor working conditions in factories and the unwillingness of the owners and the government to address these problems. These were the same motivations that influenced the development of labor unions”

• 1 point

• 2 points

• No point

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“During the nineteenth century, most governments of industrial societies successfully resisted adopting most of the demands of political and social reform movements. For example, the British government adopted very few of the Chartist demands, such as annual elections for Parliament, and minimum wage and eight-hour work day laws were only enacted in the twentieth century in most industrialized states.”

• 1 point

• 2 points

• No point

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Many reform movements demanded political or social changes in industrial societies during the nineteenth century”

• 1 point

• 2 points

• No point

Multiple Choice

Does this earn the point?

“Women’s suffragists were a force for change

as they argued for greater political rights in

part because of their increased economic

importance in industrial factories. While

suffrage was not immediately achieved, through

years of effort, women did receive additional

rights, eventually including the right to vote,

representing a significant political and social

change both.”

• 1 point

• 2 points

• No point

Additional Notes:

• Typically, statements credited as evidence will be more specific than statements credited as contextualization.

• If a response has a multipart argument it can meet the threshold of two pieces of evidence by giving one example for one part of the argument and another example for a different part of the argument, but the total number of examples must still be at least two.

Historical Thinking Skills and Counter-Argument

2 points

Responses that earn HTS and Counter-argument

• Responses that earn 1 point: 

  Must demonstrate the use of historical reasoning to explain how reform movements brought about political or social change in industrial society in the nineteenth century, although the reasoning may be uneven, limited or imbalanced. 

• Responses that earn 1 point: 

  Qualifying or modifying an argument by considering diverse or alternative views or evidence. 

  
  

Historical Thinking Skills

• Explaining how the changes to economic production that industrialization introduced led to reform movements (Continuity & Change)

• Explaining how the political demands of reform movements contributed to the expansion of suffrage in some European states (Causation)

• Comparing how different or similar factors led to the success or failure of reform movements in different industrial societies (Comparison)

Counter-argument

• Claiming that reform movements were successful in bringing about social or

  political changes in nineteenth-century industrial societies but acknowledging

  that many of the reforms that were implemented did not go nearly as far as the reform movements wanted.

Good luck!

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