Society and the Industrial Age Practice Test

The immediate elimination of poverty through welfare states, which removed the need for tenements and reduced incentives for municipal investment.

Rapid urbanization outpacing infrastructure, as industrial employment drew migrants into dense neighborhoods without adequate sanitation and clean water systems.

A sudden collapse of cities caused by deindustrialization, leaving empty buildings that spread disease through abandonment rather than overcrowding.

The universal availability of antibiotics in the nineteenth century, which encouraged officials to ignore sanitation because infectious disease was easily cured.

The replacement of railroads with animal transport, which reduced the movement of people and therefore increased isolation and localized epidemics.