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CH 25 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: How did Mill Want to change the economic system?

Answer:

He wanted to equalize the distribution of wealth and give the poor a break

Question 2: What was the benefit of being a stockholder in a corporation?

Answer:

not personally responsible for its debts Question 3: How might small farmers of the agricultural revolution be compared to the working class of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer:

Both endured long working hours. Both suffered job losses due to progress. Both lived in climates of social restructuring.

Question 4: Which of the following was a key idea in the free-market system?

Answer:

refuse to interfere in either domestic or international economic matters

Question 5: Which of the following statements are true of socialism and communism?

Answer:

Communism is a form of complete socialism in which the people own all production and property.

Question 6: What were Adam Smith's three natural laws of economics?

Answer:

Self-interest, competition, supply/demand

Question 7: What did William Wilberforce fight for in the 1800s?

Answer:

to abolish slavery and the slave trade.

Question 8: Which of the following was a result of the agricultural revolution?

Answer:

Many small farmers became tenant farmers or moved to cities. Enclosures became landmarks of wealthy landowners. Landowners experimented with new agricultural methods.

Question 9: Was destroying machines a good solution to the problem?

Answer:

Not wise

Question 10: How did Britain's economy affect the process of industrialization?

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positively, by Britain's highly developed banking system, availability of loans, and climate of progress Question 11: How is population increased connected to improved food supplies and living conditions?

Answer:

People live longer, more babies survive

Question 12: In what way did the new middle class change British society?

Answer:

Some members of the middle class achieved top positions in society

Question 13: Why might it be easier for large farms to experiment than for family farmers?

Answer:

More resources

Question 14: Why did workers join together in unions?

Answer:

To bargain together for better working conditions and higher wages.

Question 15: The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars ___ the process of

industrialization in Europe.

Answer:

slowed Question 16: Why did the labor reform movement spread to other areas of life?;People saw that group effort could achieve reform.

Answer:

People saw that group effort could achieve reform.

Question 17: What is the laissez-faire policy?

Answer:

a policy that let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference Question 18: In what way did the Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial Revolution?

Answer:

It led to population growth. It increased food supplies. It caused farmers to lose land and seek other work.

Question 19: What American invention aided the British textile industry?

Answer:

Eli Whitney's cotton gin.Question 20: How did the philosophy of laissez-faire economics influence early industrialists?

Answer:

with ideas of a free-market economy governed by natural laws, not government regulations

Question 21: How did geography play a role in Manchester's growth?

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Available resources and water access.Question 22: Which factors MOST contributed to the shorter life span of those living in cities as opposed to those in the country?

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illness caused by unhealthy living conditions Question 23: What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurrred in 19th-century Britain and elsewhere in western Europe?

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industrialization Question 24: Which of the following did NOT improve as an early result of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer:

factory working conditions Question 25: Why might women abolitionists have headed the movement for women's rights?

Answer:

Their work to gain rights for African Americans may have led them to try to gain equal rights for themselves.

Question 26: With which of the following is Karl Marx most closely associated?

Answer:

communism Question 27: What do lower wages for women suggest about their place in industrial society?

Answer:

Less valued as workers.Question 28: The country of ___ led Europe in adopting the industrial technology of Britain.

Answer:

Belgium