Factories and mills in the early nineteenth century employed women and children as well as men. Which statements are true about women and children in factories and mills? Choose all answers that are c

Factories and mills in the early nineteenth century employed women and children as well as men. Which statements are true about women and children in factories and mills? Choose all answers that are correct. Factories and mills in the early nineteenth century employed women and children as well as men. Which statements are true about women and children in factories and mills? Choose all answers that are correct. Question 1 options: Women and children earned a fraction of what men were paid. Children could not work in factories or mills until they were twelve years of age. The number of hours children could work was severely restricted. Most of the workers in cotton mills were women and children. Question 2 (1 point) Question 2 Unsaved Which statements describe typical living conditions for industrial workers? Choose all answers which are correct. Question 2 options: Row houses and tenements were terribly overcrowded. Because of the demand for workers, there were few unemployed or homeless people. Even though working conditions were difficult for factory workers, most of them could afford comfortable living conditions. Poor sanitation and polluted water spread diseases like typhus, cholera, and smallpox. Question 3 (1 point) Question 3 Unsaved Which of the following does not correctly describe Charles Dickens? Question 3 options: a mid-nineteenth-century author whose writings about urban squalor helped spur reform author of A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit wrote about the fictional industrial city of Coketown in his 1854 novel, Hard Times writer of a series of stories about the lives of the British aristocracy Question 4 (1 point) Question 4 Unsaved Queen Victoria reigned for more than sixty years and promoted the “Victorian” values of duty, hard work, and proper behavior. Question 4 options: True False Question 5 (1 point) Question 5 Unsaved Which of the following best describes Karl Marx? Question 5 options: an economist who wrote about the wealth of nations a journalist who spent his life chronicling the poverty of Britain’s industrial centers a socialist who called for the overthrow of the capitalist system a parliamentary leader who helped establish London’s first police force Question 6 (1 point) Question 6 Unsaved Marx expressed many revolutionary ideas in his Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital. Which statements express Marx’s ideas? Choose all statements that are correct. Question 6 options: free competition will lead to increased prosperity and productivity classes struggle for a bigger share of economic resources after a revolution, private property will no longer exist society is divided into agricultural workers and industrial workers the wealth of a society should be shared by all Question 7 (1 point) Question 7 Unsaved Who was the English scientist who proposed the theory known as “natural selection“? Question 7 options: Ebenezer Scrooge Sir Robert Peel Charles Darwin Adam Smooth Question 8 (1 point) Question 8 Unsaved Which of the following best describes the impact of Thomas Malthus’s ideas about population growth exceeding the food supply? Question 8 options: They encouraged nations to go to war to secure limited resources. They influenced political debates, the press, and even literature, like Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. They were rejected by scientists, who believed farmers would always produce enough food. They led to the development of police forces to control growing populations in industrial centers. Question 9 (1 point) Question 9 Unsaved Which major ideas did Charles Darwin introduce in his writings? Choose all answers that are correct. Question 9 options: the social contract survival of the fittest the germ theory of disease natural selection Question 10 (1 point) Question 10 Unsaved Which book introduced Darwin’s theory of evolution in 1859? Question 10 options: The Origin of Species A Guide to Natural Selection Capital The Voyage of the Beagle