Odyssey World History Unit 8

Read the following statement.

"The greater social good was not in the unbridled power of the nobility nor capitalism, but in social equality."

What ideology does this statement describe?

• democracy

• Marxism

• socialism

• revolution

Choose all that apply.

Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Britain?

• Britain had abundant sources of coal.

• Britain had a lot of labor unions.

• Britain had good transportation networks.

• Britain had a strong workforce.

During the early years of the Industrial Revolution, who could afford to live in nice homes and dress well?

• the newly employed

• the working class

• the new middle class

• the nobility

The 1847 Ten-Hour Act stated that _____ could only work up to ten hours a day.

• women and children

• men

• men and women

• men and children

In a labor union, laborers _____.

• must work in cotton mills

• must work day shifts

• work together in negotiating for better wages and conditions

• must be under eighteen years of age

Complete the following sentence.

Adam Smith believed that government should never intervene in a state's economy, but instead allow _____.

• owners of factories to control their workers

• workers to unite against the owners

• innovative ideas to be owned by the government

• self interest in a free market to thrive

Karl Marx believed that history was the story of _____.

• class conflict

• natural selection

• cooperation

• evolution

Who belonged to the proletariat?

• factory workers

• factory owners

• industrialists

• serfs

Mary Wollstonecraft was _____.

• the wife of Friedrich Engels

• a writer and teacher

• the mother of Charles Dickens

• an impressionist painter

The Meiji Restoration in Japan marked the overthrow of the _________.

• samurai

• daimyo

• shogun

• emperor