Socialism and Workers' Parties

Question 1

Which is an example of a socialist principle?

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the importance of having little or no gap between the classes

Question 2

Which of these statements was a Marxist criticism of capitalism during the late 1800s?

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Wealth was being distributed too unevenly in the United States.

Question 3

In 1912, socialism reached its peak in the United States when

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two Socialists were elected to the US House of Representatives.

Question 4

Which of these beliefs did the majority of Americans hold at the end of the 1800s?

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Democracy and capitalism were the best way to reach economic prosperity.

Question 5

Only a minority of Americans agreed with Marx’s notion that in a class-free society there would be

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no proletariat.

Question 6

Socialism as a political movement evolved in

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Europe during the Second Industrial Revolution.

Question 7

Which of these statements is a feature of capitalism, but not of Marxism?

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Business owners control the means of production.

Question 8

Democratic socialism in the United States was a failed attempt to inject

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socialist ideals into a democratic system.

Question 9

Which of these statements was a Marxist criticism of capitalism during the late 1800s?

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Wealth was being distributed too unevenly in the United States.

Question 10

Eugene Debs became a Socialist in 1897 while

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serving time in jail.

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