World History Chapter 19 Multiple choice – Flashcards
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During the Industrial revolution, life changed in what basic way?
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People migrated from rural areas to cities.
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The cotton gin was a machine that could
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separate seeds from raw cotton
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The first factories developed in what industry
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Textiles or Iron manufacturing
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The Luddites were a
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New religious movement
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In the early 1700s Abraham Darby experiments led him to
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produce less expensive, better quality iron
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The people who lived in tenements in industrial cities were part of the
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Working class
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Laws called "factory acts" were passed in the early 1800s to.
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Reform child labor
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Most early factory workers were women because
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Employers could pay women less than men.
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Which of the following was a long term result of the industrial revolution
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A general rise in the standard of living
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According to laissez faire economists the cure for poverty was
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An unrestricted free market
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Jeremy Bentham believed that
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Laws should be judged by whether they bring more pleasure than pain.
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According to socialists, the solution to poverty and injustice was
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Shared ownership by the people of the means of production
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Which group established communities where all work is shared and all property is owned in common
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Utopians
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Thomas Malthus discouraged vaccinations because
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Disease was a natural means of population control
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Which of the following best describes David Ricardo's "Iron Law of Wages?"
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Wage increases will not raise the standard of living of poor families,
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"The greatest happiness for the greatest number" was a goal of
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utilitarianism
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Germany formed a social democracy in the 1860s to change gradually
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From capitalism to socialism
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Karl Marx despised capitalism because he belived that it
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Created Prosperity for a few and poverty for many
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Land enclosure in the 1600s and 1700s resulted in
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Larger farms
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Abraham Darby made better quality iron by
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Using coal to smelt the iron
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Steam because an efficient power source because of improvements made by
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James Watt
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The slave trade contributed to the rise of industry in Britain by
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Bringing in investment capital
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The development of steam power enabled the growth of
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Railroads or canals
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In what way were railroads an improvement over canals
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Railroads did not have to follow the course of a river
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The putting out system was a method of
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Producing cloth in individual homes
