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The Chartist reform movement in England fought for all of the following except


A) universal manhood suffrage.
B) bi-annual meetings for members of parliament.
C) the secret ballot.
D) abolition of property qualifications for members of parliament.
E) annual meetings of parliament.

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​The man responsible for the process of converting pig iron into steel removing the impurities was_______


A) ​William Siemens
B) ​Samuel Crompton
C) ​Henry Bessemer
D) ​John Kay
E) ​James Watt

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Which statement does not match with the work of Charles Fourier?​


A) ​He believed that monogamy was a distortion of their sexual needs.
B) ​He believed that marriage limited people from community support.
C) ​He organized people into phalansteries.
D) ​He established the utopian community of New Harmony.
E) ​He viewed society as the origin of human misery.

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Increasingly,for workers Sunday became associated with


A) every other day because they worked 7 days a week.
B) religious reformers that swarmed into the slums.
C) drinking, games, and gossip.
D) church as it remained a religious day.
E) money because it was payday.

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All of the following are true of Britain in the nineteenth century except


A) it was a constitutional monarchy with many limits on the powers of the king and state.
B) it was a truly democratic state.
C) landed aristocrats dominated both the House of Lords and the House of Commons.
D) the middle class and working class slowly gained the right to vote.
E) many towns continued to be governed by corrupt groups.

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According to the text,all of the following contributed to the development of an industrial revolution in Britain except


A) large and easily developed supplies of coal and iron.
B) the enclosure movement providing factories with a labor pool.
C) a river transportation system supplemented by canals and toll roads.
D) relative decentralization of European governments' power.
E) availability of cheap labor.

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How did the move to urban areas and factory work affect those workers who had moved from villages?


A) They were exposed to better education.
B) Urban laws created healthier living conditions than living in the farm environment.
C) Laws protected workers from factory owner exploitation.
D) They lost the social connections attributed to small village life and environment.
E) Factory wages, although low, afforded them more material wealth.

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Robert Owen

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -James Watt

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Samuel Crompton

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What are the significant societal effects that occurred due to the Industrial Revolution?

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As commerce and industry developed,which of the following does NOT correctly describe the middle class?


A) Bourgeois politicians shared more power with the landed aristocracy.
B) Rich bourgeois made it a point not to emulate aristocratic manners and pleasures.
C) Industrial wealth gave the middle class greater influence in all aspects of society.
D) Like the aristocratic and proletariat classes, the bourgeois class had many internal levels
E) The virtues of work, thrift, and ambitions were landmark characteristics of the middle class bourgeois.

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With the development of the open-hearth process


A) the use of coal was practical.
B) iron became cheap.
C) iron was produced instead of steel.
D) the use of coal was practical and iron was produced instead of steel.
E) steel became cheap.

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Chartists

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Chartists were members of a working...

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In the era before the emergence of mills then factories and international economics,wealth lay


A) the iron industry.
B) textile manufacturing.
C) the world of finance.
D) landed wealth.
E) the coal industry.

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Problems faced by English unionists included each of the following except


A) strikes were rarely successful and were often suppressed by force.
B) workers could not embark on strike action to back their demand until after 1875.
C) unions made some headway in protecting their members from unemployment and dangerous working conditions.
D) many workers believed that the only hope for their class lay in unified action through trade unions.
E) their organization was illegal until 1862.

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Richard Arkwright

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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important? -Utopian scientists

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