History Quiz 3.3

made distribution cheaper and easier, eliminated delays between water routes

Canals

made land travel quicker, safer, more enjoyable

Crushed rock roads

True/false Karl Marx endorsed a laissez-faire policy in economics.

False

How would you explain the interdependence of present-day nations on each other for trade and commerce?

If nations did not participate in trade and commerce, they would have too much of one product and not enough of another.

Compare and contrast life living and working on a farm to life living in the city and working in a factory.

On a farm men determined their own hours while in the factory their hours were set for them. Both farm and factory work required hard work.

made distribution quicker, cheaper, and easier on land.

Steam locomotives

quickened distribution, lowered transportation costs on water

Steamboats

True/false Better communication and cheaper transportation both contributed to wider distribution of goods.

True

True/false Dickens wrote about deplorable factory conditions in England.

True

True/false Employers lost money during strikes even though workers were not paid during strikes.

True

True/false The Industrial Revolution raised the world's standard of living.

True

True/false Unemployment was feared by early laborers.

True

True/false Unions organized and represented laborers in demanding increases in factory pay.

True

Factors giving rise to the theories of Marx included:

abuses dealt to the working class, poor conditions under which laborers lived and worked, employers taking advantage of employees, lack of profits given employees.

Trade was so poor during the Middle Ages because:

bandits were abundant on land and sea, making trade difficult and unprofitable there were high taxes charged to use roads

Factory workers had their grievances heard through a process called:

collective bargaining

Problems facing tenement dwellers included:

cramped quarters, poor sanitary conditions, crime and immorality, poor housing.

Nations ... surplus goods in order to ... needed products and materials.

export import

Factors luring rural families to the city included:

higher wages, better life style, variety of entertainment.

Communists:

support a type of socialism believe that the working class would overcome through force seek to set up a future ideal socialist government

Taxes placed on imported goods to raise their prices are called _____.

tariffs