AP European History / Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects
6.9 Institutional Responses and Reform
Notes
Governments expanded voting (Britain's Reform Acts), built police forces, created public schools, and responded to socialism with welfare programs (Bismarck's social insurance). Russia freed serfs (1861).
Practice
Bismarck introduced social insurance partly to:
Old-age, sickness insurance.
Russia emancipated its serfs in:
Alexander II.
Britain's Reform Acts:
1832, 1867, 1884.
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