WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What new social class is created due to the Industrial Revolution?
A
The Middle Class
B
The Upper Class
C
The Merchant Class
D
The lower, lower class
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Industrial Revolution created this new middle class, or bourgeoisie, whose members came from a variety of backgrounds. Some were merchants who invested their growing profits in factories.

Detailed explanation-2: -During eighteenth to nineteenth century, Britain started their first Industrial Revolution, which brought Britain’s social class into a different stage, and caused the emergence of the new classes, such as middle class.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bourgeoisie or Middle Class. Prior to the Industrial Revolution there were people of the middling sort, as historians are now inclined to say, but there was not yet a bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie, or middle class, was created by the Industrial Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -A post-war rise in unionism, the passage of the GI Bill, a housing program, and other progressive actions led to a doubling of the median family income in only 30 years, creating a middle class that included nearly 60 percent of Americans by the late 1970s.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the Industrial Revolution, the middle class lived in comfortable homes and households that reinforced gender norms. The Industrial Revolution created new jobs like those in office and retail management, as well as sales, for middle class men.

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