Drill 20 · Multiple Choice · Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects
AP World History Unit 6 Drill 20 is a Multiple Choice practice drill covering Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects. It contains 5 original questions created by Brian Stewart, a Barron's test prep author with over 20 years of tutoring experience.
This drill focuses on the mass migrations of the 19th century and how industrialization, imperialism, and global economic integration uprooted and relocated millions of people. Read the passage carefully, then answer all five questions.
Adapted from a modern historian's account.
"The nineteenth century was the great age of global migration, driven by forces that were simultaneously coercive and voluntary. Tens of millions of Europeans crossed the Atlantic, drawn by the promise of land, wages, and political freedom in the Americas — yet their migration was also driven by enclosure movements, famines, and the disruptions of industrialization that made remaining at home untenable. Indentured laborers from India and China were transported across oceans under contracts that promised wages but delivered conditions little better than the slavery they nominally replaced. Freed people and their descendants in the Americas built new communities in diaspora while remaining constrained by legal discrimination and economic marginalization. What united all these migrations was their entanglement with the same economic system — global industrial capitalism — that simultaneously created demand for labor in new places and destroyed livelihoods in old ones."