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21 Cards in this Set
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This was an improvement in city living in the nineteenth century
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Public Sewage
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What did the women's suffrage movement work to do?
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Get women the right to vote
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In the nineteenth century cities, what did the poor live in?
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tenements near the factories
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Closely linked to labor reform:
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unions
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What did the industrialization in the textile industry result in?
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the establishment of factories
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Hwo did factory work differ from farm work?
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factory work was unvarying
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What was the main reason that employers preferred women workers to men?
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employers were able to pay women less than men
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What was one reason that parents accepted child labor?
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they needed the additional money
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What response did protesters meet in the 1700 and 1800s?
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harsh repression
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What movement gave working-class people some comfort
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Methodism
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How did the middle class view the poor during the Industrial Revolution?
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they believed the poor were responsible for their own misery
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Who was the prophet of laissez-faire economics?
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Adam Smith
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Why did Thomas Malthus urge families to have fewer children?
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he believed that the population would outpace the food supply
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According to Ricardo, what did higher wages ultimately lead to?
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lower wages
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Which groups worked to refrom many aspects of society without altering it radically?
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the utilitarians
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Why did Carl Marx condemn ideas of the Utopians?
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he believed they were unrealistic
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What did Marx believe created poverty for many people?
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capitalism
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Which of the following helped British farmers increase food production in the 1700s?
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improved farm machinery
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Which of the following was the most important source of power for the early Industrial Revolution?
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the steam engine
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What was one way that the agricultural revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution?
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it triggered a population explosion
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Whose philosophy was it that the goal of society should be “the greatest happiness for the greatest number” of its citizens
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the utilitarians
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