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Which best describes what happened to New Harmony?

A
The community was a failure.
B
The community was a success.
C
The community was destroyed by fire.
D
The community still exists.
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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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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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Read the excerpt from The Communist Manifesto.The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

A
Communists should try to win reforms through peaceful means.
B
Running for office at the local and national level will bring about change.
C
Communists should hide their views from the public, and plot in secret.
D
Violence is necessary to do away with the capitalist 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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A
communism
B
capitalism
C
socialism
D
anarchism
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A
capitalism
B
utopianism
C
communism
D
mysticism
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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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Which statement is characteristic of a communist system? Choose four answers.

A
The government controls the means of production.
B
Prices and wages are set by supply and demand.
C
The government regulates a centrally planned economy.
D
Entrepreneurs are encouraged to take risks.
E
Prices and wages are set by the government.
F
Businesses are free to follow their own best interests.
G
A single authoritarian party holds complete power.
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Marx and Engels believed that a communist revolution would defeat capitalism and that the revolution would be led by

A
the bourgeoisie.
B
entrepreneurs.
C
factory owners.
D
the working class.

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