Unit 7: Quiz 3

Question 1

The middle class, especially those having views influenced by private-property interest.

Answer 1

bourgeoisie

Question 2

Negotiations between an employer and union representatives concerning wages, hours, and working conditions.

Answer 2

collective bargaining

Question 3

Payment to an unemployed or injured worker or his family

Answer 3

compensation

Question 4

The policy opposing government intervention in economics.

Answer 4

laissez-faire

Question 5

The poorest class of working people in society. According to Marxist theory, it is the social class of industrial workers who must earn their living by selling their labor.

Answer 5

proletariat

Question 6

Any of a number of economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership of the means of production of goods.

Answer 6

socialism

Question 7

Factors luring rural families to the city included

Answer 7

higher wages, better life style, and variety of entertainment

Question 8

Problems facing tenement dwellers included:

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Factors giving rise to the theories of Marx included:

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Communists

Answer 10

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

Question 11

__________ was feared by early laborers.

Answer 11

Unemployment

Question 12

__________ wrote about deplorable factory conditions in England

Answer 12

Dickens

Question 13

Factory workers had their grievances heard through a process called

Answer 13

collective bargaining

Question 14

The Industrial Revolution raised the world’s

Answer 14

standard of living

Question 15

_____________________________________ both contributed to wider distribution of goods

Answer 15

Better communication and cheaper transportation

Question 16

Taxes placed on imported goods to raise their prices are called

Answer 16

tarrifs

Question 17

Trade was so poor during the Middle Ages because

Answer 17

bandits and high taxes on roads

Question 18

made land travel quicker, safer, more enjoyable

Answer 18

crushed rock roads

Question 19

made distribution cheaper and easier, eliminated delays between water routes

Answer 19

canals

Question 20

quickened distribution, lowered transportation costs on water

Answer 20

steamboats

Question 21

made distribution quicker, cheaper, and easier on land.

Answer 21

steam locomotives