AMSCO 5.8 & 5.9

Workers' only option for seeking better pay and benefits in the 19th century was

• forming labor unions

• joining the communist party

• violence against factory owners

• publishing articles about working conditions

• moving to larger cities

How did labor unions impact voting rights in countries such as Britain?

• they were unchanged

• they pushed for new laws expanding voting rights

• they sought to limit who could vote

• unions traded voting rights for more pay and benefits

• most workers did not see voting rights as an important issue

Child labor in the 19th century

• was mostly unheard of in factories

• was outlawed completely in most countries by the mid-1800s

• was widely used in factories and mines

• received equal pay with adult workers

• formed their own unions apart from adult workers

Mill's idea of utilitarianism meant

• workers should fight for more pay and benefits

• capitalism should be replaced immediately

• a person should be measured by how good they are at their job

• people should choose to do the most good for the most people

• people should have the right the vote

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels predicted

• capitalism would be dominant forever

• workers will rise up and take power away from the wealthy

• the population surge would lead to mass starvation

• workers would eventually gain more pay and benefits through unions

• industrialization would end by the end of the 19th century

According to communist thought, the bourgeoisie are

• the middle and upper class who control the means of production

• the lower working class

• going to rise up and take power from the proletariat

• entitled to all of their profits

• not the real enemy of the working classes

In the Ottoman Empire, Mahmud II defeated and massacred the

• Jews

• Janissaries

• Greeks

• French

• proletariat

In the Ottoman Empire, Tanzimat was

• a sultan who pushed for modernization

• a reorganizing of the Ottoman society and economy

• an elite group of soldiers loyal to the sultan

• the capital city

• an effort to push all foreign influence out of the empire

Abdul Hamid became known as the Red Sultan because he

• was a communist

• ordered hundreds of thousands of Armenians killed

• his guards all wore red

• red was his favorite color

• supported the effort to modernize the Ottoman Empire

China's Self-Strengthening Movement

• turned China into the leading industrial power in Asia

• sought to modernize the country and fix major problems

• believed old traditional Chinese ways should continue to be observed

• sought better relations with Japan

• was a communist effort to take over the government