Economic Ideologies and Reform Movements of the 1800s
By Amy Gilstrap
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39 Questions
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Do you know where you stand on this spectrum?
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What is the root word of conservative?
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What is the root word of liberal?
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Where would the following individuals most likey be on this political spectrum?
- poor factory worker
- middle class shop owner
- farmer in a small village
- noble
- Conservative
- Liberal
- Radical
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| arrow_right_alt | focus on theories about power and government | |
| arrow_right_alt | focus on how factors of production are managed, the level of government involvement in economics and who should be allowed to make a profit |
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There is no difference between an economic theory and reality.
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Who owns the factors of production in a capitalist economy?
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What can consumers do if they do not like a product, or the price of a product in a capitalist system?
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What keeps the price of goods lower in a capitalist system?
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How does the goverment make money in a captialist system?
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Draw a picture of Adam Smith telling government to keep its hands out of business. Title this Adam Smith's Laissez-Faire
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Why did Adam Smith want the government to stay out of buisness?
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The United States is a purely capitalist system.
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Who owns an manages large industries and business in a socialist system?
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What is the difference between the public owning something and the government owning something?
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What is the purpose of socialism?
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How does government pay for the services or goods that they give to parts of their society?
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What kinds of problems can come up under a socialist system?
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Who owns the factors of production in a communist economy?
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In theory, what is the purpose of government in a communist society?
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Draw a picture of the proletariat overthrowing the bourgeoisie. Label this Marxist Communism.
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What problems could arise under Marxist communism?
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Do you think communism has delivered the equality that it promised to people? Why or why not?
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What would life be like in an anarchist system?
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What is suffrage?
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The Reform Bill of 1832
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What change allowed most male American citizens the right to vote?
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Draw a picture of the Women's Social and Political Union protesting for the right to vote.
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| arrow_right_alt | gave slaves in Confederate states freedom | |
| arrow_right_alt | abolished slavery | |
| arrow_right_alt | granted citizenship to former slaves and defined citizenship | |
| arrow_right_alt | protected the right to vote, no citize can be denied the right to vote based on race, color or previous condition of servitude |
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Why did Czar Alexander II free the serfs?
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| arrow_right_alt | created workhouses for homeless people | |
| arrow_right_alt | formed to clean up the city water, sewage, and drainage problems |
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| arrow_right_alt | one person or company controlling a whole industry with little or no competition | |
| arrow_right_alt | one person or company controlls all parts of a business from start to finish (grow the food, transport, cook, sell it) | |
| arrow_right_alt | one person or company controls all of one part of a in industry, like owning all the trucks or railroads for transporting goods |
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| arrow_right_alt | controlled the steel industry | |
| arrow_right_alt | built first factories in the US | |
| arrow_right_alt | banking tycoon | |
| arrow_right_alt | controlled the oil industry |