Chapter 23 Quiz (Lesh)
The key demand of the Chartist movement was...
A. that all men have the right to vote
After 1878, Bismarck and the Reichstag sought to win the support of...
A. the working class.
The first country to enact social welfare legislation was...
B. Germany.
Who wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England?
A. Engels
Robert Owen argued in 1816 that
A. employing children in factories was dangerous for them.
In 1850 the two occupational areas that employed the most people in Britain were...
A. farming and domestic service.
The Third Reform Bill of 1884 ...
A. gave the vote to all adult males in Britain.
In 1802 the British Parliament banned the use of what in factories?
B. Orphan labor
The labor force of the early rural textile factories was recruited primarily from...
B. orphaned children
Scholarly statistical studies of the economic condition of the British working class indicate that
B. significant improvement did not come until after 1820.
According to the text, the Mines Act of 1842 prohibited underground work for all women because of concerns about...
B. the sexual morality of the miners.
The poet William Blake ...
B. thought the factories were "satanic mills".
Handicraft workers who smashed the new machines they believed were putting them out of work were known as
C. Luddites
Which of the following was a result of the boom in agricultural production of the eighteenth century?
C. People had more money to spend on manufactured goods.
In which industry in England did the first modern factories begin to appear?
C. The textile industry.
The most serious obstacle impeding industrial development in Britain was
C. a shortage of energy supplies.
The Combination Acts of 1799...
C. outlawed labor unions and strikes.
The Dreyfus Affair...
C. revived republican distrust of Catholicism and Monarchists.
As a result of the brutal destruction of the Paris Commune,
D. France formed a new national unity.
What was the best-paid position in the 1790s English textile industry?
D. Hand-loom weaver
What was one of the major limitations of the putting-out system in the British textile industry?
D. There were not enough spinners.
Robert Owen, the British industrialist, ...
D. favored the organization of a single national labor union.
Immediately prior to World War I, the most troublesome political problem for Great Britain was...
E. Irish home rule.
In the English putting-out system, what did merchants do with raw materials?
E. Loaned them to local cottage workers to work at home
Most of the economic profits from slave labor in the colonies were spent on what back in Britain?
E. Purchasing more land.
Before 1914, anti-Semitism was strongest in
E. Russia
A major problem for women working in factories was that factories conflicted with their
E. child care.
Emperor Wilhelm II in 1890 ...
E. forced Bismarck to resign.
The Condition of the Working Class in England proposed that...
E. the British middle classes were guilty of "mass murder" and "wholesale robbery."
Until the eighteenth century, most energy in Europe came from...
E. wood