Standard Checks Ch. 7: The Industrial Revolution Begins Answers

With reforms, it eventually brought the blessing of material benefits and new
opportunities. However, at first workers lived and worked in wretched
conditions and poverty.
11. Explain the response to laissez-faire economics during the nineteenth century (10.3.6)
Govt should not interfere in business b/c a free market eventually brings
greater prosperity to everyone.
12. What did John Stuart Mill see as the proper role of government (10.3.6)
Mill believed govt should intervene to prevent harm to its citizens, such as
abuse of workers.
13. What did early socialist believe (10.3.6)
That all property and all means of production should be owned by the people as
a whole
14. What did Marx predict was the future of the proletariat (10.3.6)
The proletariat would overthrow capitalism through revolution, take control of
the means of productions, and create a classless society.
15. How accurate did Marx’s predictions about social classes prove to be (10.3.6)
Marx was wrong about international revolution. By the 1990s, few communist
countries remained.