OER: Rise of the Proletariat

Open Ended

If your job paid you less than others and had unsafe conditions, would you speak up—even if it meant you could get fired? Why or why not?

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to colonize another area?

•  A) To visit as a tourist
  

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  B) To trade goods fairly
  

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  C) To take control and use it for profit
  

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  D) To build a factory there

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a capitalist?

• A) A person who works in a coal mine

• B) A person who owns factories and makes money from them

• C) A group of workers with shared jobs

• D) A soldier who fights for a company

Word Cloud

A group of workers who join together to ask for better pay or hours is called a ________.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains a cause and an effect of industrial capitalism, based on the Pullman example?

• A) Workers earned high wages, which caused them to protest for even more money.

•  B) The Pullman Company shared profits fairly, which created better living conditions.

•  C) Company owners controlled rent and wages, which caused workers to struggle financially.

•  D) Workers were paid in cash and goods, which improved their quality of life.

Open Ended

According to the article, industrialists owned the means of production under industrial capitalism. What are the means of production, and how did controlling them make industrialists powerful?

Open Ended

Why did industrialists begin to hire women, and what were their experiences?

Open Ended

What were conditions like for workers overall?

Open Ended

What is the proletariat?

Open Ended

How, according to the author, did workers begin to organize into alliances like unions, and what were their principal tactics?

Open Ended

Why, according to the author, was there less union organizing in the colonies?

Multiple Choice

What was a significant effect of the Industrial Revolution on the working class according to the text?

• Improvement in living standards

• Decrease in employment opportunities

• Worsening working conditions

• Increase in educational opportunities