history exam 3

Factories hired women and Children because they...

• were quieter

• were faster

• worked harder

• worked for less money

When accidents happened in factories, owners usually....

• paid for medical bills

• gave workers time off

• offered nothing

• made safer machines

Tenements were...

• A fast type of loom

• cheap apartment buildings

• paymasters for factories

• poorly made factories

Marconi invented the

• telegraph

• phonograph

• radio

• light bulb

In a capital system, the Means of Production is...

• privately owned

• publicly owner

• owned by labor unios

• owned by workers

According to people who are in favor of laissez-faire, government should...

• stay our of business

• regulate business

• hire the unemployed

• not be an employer

What is one result of the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century?

• peasants supported the rule of napoleon

• competition for colonies in north America decreased

• Cities in Europe and the United States grew

• the pace of scientific discoveries slowed

Negotiation between unions and employers is called...

• going on strike

• collective bargaining

• free enterprise

• socialism

Artisans or skilled workers found themselves unemployed because...

• they needed different skills

• machines broke down

• unskilled workers worked for lower wages

• households did not need their wages

Middle-class men and women...

• gained their social position by luck

• worked in factories running machines

• were not allowed to own property

• lived and dressed like the upper classes