AP Success - AP World History: Industrial Revolution in England

In this excerpt from The Spectator, the author highlights the high human cost of extracting mineral fuel in England during the 19th century.

Source 1

The mineral fuel which constitutes so great a source of our national wealth is not extracted from the earth without a fearful sacrifice of life; either cut off suddenly, or slowly, but as surely, destroyed by inhaling the poisonous gases of the mines. Scarcely a week passes without fatal explosions, of which little notice is taken beyond the immediate scenes of the calamities; nor is it till some thirty or forty human beings have been killed at one flash that public attention is aroused ; whilst the thousands who are sent to premature graves by the daily operating effects of the insidious atmospheric poison are altogether unminded.

English publication, The Spectator, 3 November 1849

Question 1

Short answer

Identify one reason for England leading the Industrial Revolution described in the excerpt.

Question 2

Short answer

Describe one way coal mining affected workers described in the excerpt.

Question 3

Short answer

Explain how the conditions described in the excerpt influenced the 19th-century English labor movement.

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