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A
capitalism
B
utopianism
C
communism
D
mysticism
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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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Read the description of an economic system in an imaginary country. The national government built all the transportation systems. The government determines where the train will go and how much each trip will cost. All people who work on the train system [mechanics, drivers, ticket sales, or cleaners] are employed and paid by the national government. All citizens of this country "share" ownership of the train system.

A
The people control the means of production.
B
The government makes the economic decisions.
C
The economy operates on prioritizing the individual.
D
The law of supply and demand controls the economy.
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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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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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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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In a socialist economy, what typically influences the prices of national goods and services in key industries?

A
the government of the country
B
the law of supply and demand
C
a committee of business leaders
D
a group of politicians from all parties
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communism
B
capitalism
C
socialism
D
anarchism
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Which of these were problems in the Industrial Age? Choose four answers.

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 the excerpt from The Communist Manifesto.Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians [workers] have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!

A
Workers should take care not to lose their personal property.
B
Workers are so oppressed that they should revolt.
C
A failed revolt will land the revolutionaries in prison, in chains.
D
It is unjust to hold communist revolutionaries in chains.

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