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6 marksIndustrial Revolutions and Colonialism

CAPE History Unit 2 · 2011 · Paper 2 · Question 4(a)

Questions 4(a) to 4(d) relate to provided extracts on the emergence of the United States of America as an industrial power: Document I on factory life in 1846, Document II on objectives of 19th-century trade unions, and Document III from Samuel Gompers (1890).

With reference to Document I, outline THREE consequences of the industrial revolution for the working classes in the USA by the second half of the nineteenth century.

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  1. 4(b)With reference to Document II, give THREE reasons why the unions were unlikely to achieve the stated objectives for the workers up to the end of the nineteenth…[6 marks]
  2. 4(c)With reference to Document III, suggest THREE ways in which the labour movement became a "fixed fact" in American industrial relations up to 1900.[6 marks]
  3. 4(d)With reference to Documents I, II and III, give THREE examples to show that the industrial revolution in the United States of America led to a growth in…[12 marks]

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