Socialism and Communism

Question 1

Which of these were problems in the Industrial Age? Choose four answers.high poverty ratesthe influence of unions poor working conditions crowded citiesgrowing inequalityoverly generous welfare benefits

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A: high poverty rates; C: poor working conditions; D: crowded cities; E: growing inequality

Question 2

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.

Question 3

As a result of the problems of the Industrial Age, some influential reformers called for

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A: a new economic system.

Question 4

What does the name “New Harmony” suggest about the goals of the community’s founder?

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B: It suggests that the founder saw the community as a place of cooperation.

Question 5

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Question 6

Which best describes a social democracy also known as a socialist democracy?

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B: the government controls the economy but allows free elections and other civil liberties

Question 7

The utopian socialist factory owner from Great Britain who worked to improve conditions for his workers was

Question 8

Which statement most accurately describes The Communist Manifesto?

Question 9

What was New Harmony, Indiana?

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C: a model utopian community

Question 10

Marx and Engels believed the Industrial Revolution had separated people into two separate classes: the bourgeoisie and the

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