POISE Thematic Review: Poverty and Prosperity Use your notes, Anchor Points, notes, textbook to find SPECIFIC FACTUAL INFORMATION from each period that answers the POVERTY AND PROSPERITY questions. BE SURE TO ANSWER ALL PARTS OF EACH QUESTION: (Gray areas do not have to be filled in)
Poverty/Prosperity 1 Explain how and why wealth generated from new trading, financial, and manufacturing practices and institutions created a market and then a consumer economy. 2 Identify the changes in agricultural production and evaluate their impact on economic growth and the standard of living in preindustrial Europe. 3 Explain how geographic, economic, social, and political factors affected the pace, nature, and timing of industrialization in western and eastern Europe. 4 Explain how the development of new technologies and industries, as well as new means of communication, marketing, and transportation, contributed to expansion of consumerism and increased standards of living and quality of life in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Period 1 1450-1648
Period 2 1648-1815
Period 3 1815-1914
Period 4 1914-present
5 Analyze the origins, characteristics, and effects of the post–World War II economic miracle and the economic integration of Europe (the Euro zone). 6 Analyze how expanding commerce and industrialization from the 16th through the 19th centuries led to the growth of cities and changes in the social structure, most notably a shift from a landed to a commercial elite. 7 Explain how environmental conditions, the Agricultural Revolution, and industrialization contributed to demographic changes, the organization of manufacturing, and alterations in the family economy. 8 Analyze socialist, communist, and fascist efforts to develop responses to capitalism and why these efforts gained support during times of economic crisis. 9 Assess how peasants across Europe were affected by and responded to the policies of landlords, increased taxation, and the price revolution in the early modern period.
10 Explain the role of social inequality in contributing to and affecting the nature of the French Revolution and subsequent revolutions throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. 11 Analyze the social and economic causes and consequences of the Great Depression in Europe. 12 Evaluate how the expansion of a global consumer economy after World War II served as a catalyst to opposition movements in Eastern and Western Europe. 13 Analyze how cities and states have attempted to address the problems brought about by economic modernization, such as poverty and famine, through regulating morals, policing marginal populations, and improving public health. 14 Explain how industrialization elicited critiques from artists, socialists, workers’ movements, and feminist organizations. 15 Analyze efforts of government and nongovernmental reform movements to respond to
poverty and other social problems in the 19th and 20th centuries. 16 Analyze how democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian governments of the left and right attempted to overcome the financial crises of the 1920s and 1930s.