1. Why did England industrialize before the rest of Europe? How did political and social factors influence English industrialization?
2. How did political and social factors promote or delay industrialization in France, the German states, and the Netherlands?
3. How did changes in European agriculture in the early 1800s reflect the impact of capitalism and industrialization?
4. What factors promoted the growth of cities between 1800 and 1860?
5. To what extent was industrialization a slow process? To what extent did industrialization between 1750 and 1850 revolutionize European industry, commerce and society?
6. In nineteenth century Europe, what groups comprised the middle class, and of what groups was the working class composed? Why did contemporaries and some historians make the terms plural?
7. How did the role of organized religion change in lives of working-class people between 1800 and 1850?
8. What aspects of working-class life and culture did the middle class try to change in the nineteenth century?
9. How did the law discriminate against and punish the working class during the early stages of industrialization? How did it try to protect this class?