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Which of these were problems in the Industrial Age? Choose four answers.high poverty ratesthe influence of unions poor working conditions crowded citiesgrowing inequalityoverly generous welfare benefits

A
high poverty rates
B
the influence of unions
C
poor working conditions
D
crowded cities
E
growing inequality
F
overly generous welfare benefits
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Read this excerpt from Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England.Every great city has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. . . . The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead.

A
Industrialization has created poor living conditions.
B
Mass production has led to the birth of industrial cities.
C
Steam-power machinery has destroyed the environment.
D
Workers in cities need to try harder to improve their living conditions.
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As a result of the problems of the Industrial Age, some influential reformers called for

A
a new economic system.
B
a single world government.
C
a dictatorship in the United States.
D
an end to all factories.
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What does the name “New Harmony” suggest about the goals of the community’s founder?

A
It suggests that people who lived in the community would not have to work.
B
It suggests that the founder saw the community as a place of cooperation.
C
It suggests that the founder wanted people to compete for financial rewards.
D
It suggests that community members would be required to study music.
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communismcapitalismsocialismanarchism

A
communism
B
capitalism
C
socialism
D
anarchism
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Which best describes a social democracy also known as a socialist democracy?

A
industry is privatized and military forces control the government
B
the government controls the economy but allows free elections and other civil liberties
C
the government controls the economy and bans free elections and other civil liberties
D
most workers live in communes and share goods and property
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The utopian socialist factory owner from Great Britain who worked to improve conditions for his workers was

A
Jacob Riis
B
Karl Marx
C
Robert Owen
D
Friedrich Engels
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Which statement most accurately describes The Communist Manifesto?

A
It was a description of the many benefits brought to modern life by industrialization.
B
It was a publication describing the upbringing and education of Karl Marx.
C
It was a description of the class struggle and the problems caused by capitalism.
D
It was a criticism that pointed out the cruelties of the communist system.
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What was New Harmony, Indiana?

A
a successful factory town
B
a community of escaped enslaved persons
C
a model utopian community
D
a community for religious dissidents
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Marx and Engels believed the Industrial Revolution had separated people into two separate classes: the bourgeoisie and the

A
utopians
B
proletariat
C
appendages
D
capitalists

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