"One can hardly believe there has been a revolution in all history so rapid, so extensive, so complete. Through it the face of t
he earth is making over, even as to its physical forms; political boundaries are wiped out and moved about, as if they were indeed only lines on a paper map; population is hurriedly gathered into cities from the ends of the earth; habits of living are altered with startling abruptness and thoroughness; the search for the truths of nature is infinitely stimulated and facilitated and their application to life made not only practicable, but commercially necessary. Even our moral and religious ideas and interests, the most conservative because the deepest-lying things in our nature, are profoundly affected. That this revolution should not affect education in other than formal and superficial fashion is inconceivable. Back of the factory system lies the household and neighborhood system. Those of us who are here today need go back only one, two, or at most three generations, to find a time when the household was practically the center in which were carried on, or about which were clustered, all the typical forms of industrial occupation.”
The passage implies that the Industrial Revolution had which of the following effects on the social norms of working-class households?
Socialist sympathies undermined the strictures of patriarchy.
Factories supplanted the home as the central locus of family life.
Progressive values decentralized conventional family structures.
Traditional feudal systems reinforced the rise of the nuclear family.
The motives for Spanish exploration was to find Northwest Passage, which they believed was a direct and efficient route to the Orient - home of spices, silks and wealth. (Hopes this can help)
