Question

What role did the early Industrial Revolution have on the European political and social order? A) The working poor were elevated from poverty, eliminating the need for unskilled labor. B) Craftsmen became more important as people demanded higher quality manufactured goods. C) Non-elites became wealthy and demanded greater social standing and more political rights. D) The nobility were able to fend off attempts by the newly rich and gain a tighter control of power.

Answer 1

C. Non-elites became wealthy and demanded greater social standing and more political rights

Answer 2

C) Non-elites became wealthy and demanded greater social standing and more political rights.

Step-by-step explanation:

Industrial Revolution ended with a lot of divisions that medieval Europe had settled for centuries. For centuries elites ruled Europe based on the economy of agriculture, the ones that needed to survive needed to serve to lords so they could eat and be protected. With the Industrial Revolution people were able to gain independence and work for themselves, gain their own money and not be ruled by lords. With that, non-elites became wealthy, money started to go to other people, not the old lords, and those people demanded social standing and political rights which they were denied for centuries by those lords.