Industrial Revolution
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- Q1Base your answer to this question on the excerpt below and on your knowledge of social studies . . . .That in some few instances the regular hours of work do not exceed ten, exclusive of the time allowed for meals; sometimes they are eleven, but more commonly twelve; and in great numbers of instances the employment is continued for fifteen, sixteen, and even eighteen hours consecutively. That in almost every instance the Children work as long as the adults; being sometimes kept at work sixteen, and even eighteen hours, without any intermission. . . . — The Physical and Moral Condition of the Children and Young Persons Employed in Mines and Manufactures, 1843 This type of evidence was used in the argument foropposing the spread of communismmodifying laissez-faire practicesrestricting voting rightsreforming the landholding system30s
- Q2In the late 1700s, the Industrial Revolution developed in Britain because Britainrequired a minimum wage be paid to workerssuppressed the enclosure movementexcluded foreign investorspossessed key factors of production30s
- Q3Which course of action does the theory of laissez faire suggest a government should follow?providing help for people in needcontrolling the mineral resources of a countryestablishing businesses to create jobsletting natural laws regulate the economy30s
- Q4What was one reason the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain?The practice of serfdom in Great Britain provided an abundance of laborersGreat Britain had alliances with most European countriesAbundant natural resources were available in Great Britain.The government of Great Britain implemented a series of five-year plans30s
- Q5Adam Smith’s laissez-faire theories are most closely associated withthe separation of church and statea command economyhigh tariffs to protect domestic businessesminimal government regulation of the economy30s
- Q6Increased agricultural production in England in the late 1700s contributed directly tothe introduction of manorialisma decrease in the power of the monarchan increase in life expectancythe development of a worldwide communications network30s
- Q7Which geographic feature most aided England during the Industrial Revolution?monsoon windsnatural harborsmountainous terraindesert climate30s
- Q8Base your answer to question 29 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies. “It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill smelling dye. . . .” — Charles Dickens, Hard Times Which problem is the subject of this passage?urban pollutionlack of child labor lawseconomic inequalitypoor transportation systems30s
- Q9A key idea in the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is that workers should support thetechnological changes in production methodsoverthrow of the capitalist systemlegislative regulation of wages and working conditionsestablishment of labor unions30s
- Q10During the 1800s, reform legislation passed in Great Britain, France, and Germany led tobans on overseas trade, mandatory military service, and universal suffrage for womenformation of zaibatsu, greater equality for men, and establishment of a banking systemgovernment-owned factories, establishment of five-year plans, and limits placed on immigrationlegalizing trade unions, setting minimum wages, and limiting child labor30s
- Q11What was the primary reason that large numbers of people left Ireland in the 1840s and 1850s?A political revolution had startedThe people sought better educational opportunitiesA smallpox epidemic broke out in the countryThe people faced mass starvation30s
- Q12Which statement represents a central idea of laissez-faire economics?Workers should form unions to better their conditionsPrices are best determined by supply and demand.The government should own all means of productionClass struggles are based on inequities30s