Unit 3 Open Note Quiz

Which of the following were true of the new technologies of the Agricultural Revolution (2 correct)

• They improved the efficiency of food output

• They led to an increase in farming jobs

• They led to an increase in urbanization

• More farmland was required to produce the same amount of food

• They led to an increase in the usage of hand powered agricultural tools

Which of the following are true about the steam engine?

• Steam Engines are fueled by wood

• Steam Engines can be used to power machines in factories

• Steam Engines could be used to power ships

• Steam Engines led to pollution in industrial cities

• Steam Engines led to cholera in the drinking water

Match the following

• Bourgeois

• Wealthy business class

• Proletariat

• organized groups of workers

• Strike

• The industrial working class

• Scabs

• an organized refusal to work, sometimes leading to violence

• Union

• Replacement workers brought in during strikes

Which of the following were true about living and working conditions in early industrial cities (multiple correct)?

• 12 - 16 hour work days

• 6-7 days a week, no holidays

• Workers lived in crowded tenement housing

• Workers could be forced to do jobs against their will

• Miners often had to eat coal due to food shortages

Karl Marx believed capitalist inequality would lead to a revolution by the Bourgeois against the Proletariat.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

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Which of the following are characteristic of a capitalist economy? (2 correct)

• Economic Equality

• Competition based on desire for profit

• Supply and Demand

• Heavy government regulation

• Redistribution of wealth

Which of the following are characteristics of a communist economy? (2 correct)

• The transfer of wealth from rich to poor

• Government or working class control of factories

• Inequality between classes

• Supply and Demand

• Competition driven by the profit motive

Which of the following would move a country to the economic left (more like communism or socialism)? (Multiple Correct)

• Lowering taxes, decreasing government spending, implementing free trade policies, and deregulating industries.

• Increasing taxes on the poor, decreasing social welfare programs, implementing free market policies, and deregulating industries.
• Government run factories, increasing taxes on the wealthy, and increasing social welfare programs.

• Privatization of industries, decreasing taxes, and cutting social welfare programs.

Which of the following policies would move a country toward the economic right (more capitalist)?

• Nationalizing industries and businesses
• Implementing a government planned economy

• Increasing government regulations and money for social welfare programs

• Reducing government regulations and cutting welfare programs

Reorder the following

• Common land is farmed by peasants on the manor.

• Early domestic textile manufacturing begins. Most people still in rural areas.

• Populations of cities explode, working conditions and living conditions terrible. Workers form unions

• The government implements reforms to make life for the working class better and avoid revolution.

• The steam engine is invented, peasants looking for work move to cities.