Review for the Unit #2 Quiz

Which conclusion is best supported by the information on the map?

• England’s natural resources led to the growth of

  industrial cities.

• In 1830, England had an unfavorable balance of

  trade.

• Great Britain’s prosperity unified the people.

• People emigrated from Great Britain because of pollution.

Identify one cause of the historical development depicted in the map.

• Socialist organizations promised land and a good

  wage to those who moved to industrial cities.

• The British government paid people to move to cities.

• Agricultural innovations made it easier for farmers to hire more people.

• Coal powered steam engines powered factories that employed many people in England.

   

"Steam-engines furnish the means not only of their support but of their multiplication. They create a vast demand for fuel; and, while they lend their powerful arms to drain the pits and to raise the coals, they call into employment multitudes of miners, engineers, ship-builders, and sailors, and cause the construction of canals and railways: and, while they enable these rich fields of industry to be cultivated to the utmost, they leave thousands of fine arable fields free for the production of food to man, which must have been otherwise allotted to the food of horses. Steam-engines moreover, by the cheapness and steadiness of their action, fabricate [produce] cheap goods, and procure [acquire] in their exchange a liberal supply of the necessaries and comforts of life, produced in foreign lands. . . ."

According to Andrew Ure, what was one effect of the use of steam engines in the 19th century?

• Greater employment

• slowed industrial growth

• An increase in the price of goods

• Food scarcity

In cities and towns, drinking water was drawn from the same rivers into which raw sewage flowed. This sewage contaminated the water with the bacteria that cause cholera and typhoid fever. However, a direct link between germs and diseases had yet to be made. In England, London’s Thames river was so polluted that in the summer of 1858, the “Great Stink” drove Members of Parliament out of the House of Commons, situated close to the river.

This illustration and excerpt depict events from which time and place in history?

• Revolutionary France

• Meiji Japan

• Victorian England

• Soviet Russia

“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?

• economic inequality

• urban pollution

• lack of child labor laws

• poor transportation systems

“. . . They [the Communists] openly declare that their ends can be attained [achieved] only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!” — Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848

 

The views expressed by Engels and Marx in this passage were developed in reaction to the ___.

• unification of Germany

• Commercial Revolution

• Congress of Vienna

• Industrial Revolution

Flora Tristan was a 19th-century French activist and a member of the lower working class. In 1843, she wrote The Workers’ Union. Here is an excerpt of the petition:

5. Recognition of the legitimacy of the right to moral, intellectual, and vocational education for all boys and girls. 

6. Examination of the possibility of labor organizing in the current social state [social conditions]. 

7. Construction of Workers’ Union palaces [buildings] in every department, in which working-class children would receive intellectual and vocational instruction, and to which the infirm and elderly as well as workers injured on the job would be admitted. 

 Identify an effect of the actions taken by  activists in the late 1800s who would have shared Tristan’s point of view as expressed in this passage.

• Universal suffrage (Voting rights for men and women)

• Less government regulation on business

• Education laws requiring children to attend school

• More government spending on the military