Base your answer to the following question on the quotation below and on your knowledge of social studies. No observer of Manchester [England] in the 1830s and 1840s dwelt on its happy, well-fed people. Wretched, defrauded, oppressed, crushed human nature lying in bleeding fragments all over the face of society, wrote an American in 1845 ..... Can we be surprised that the first generation of the labouring poor in . . . Britain looked at the results of capitalism and found them wanting?-E.J. HobsbawmThis quotation describes some negative effects of the

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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Base your answer to the following question on the quotation below and on your knowledge of social studies. “No observer of Manchester [England] in the 1830’s and 1840’s dwelt on its happy, well-fed people. ‘Wretched, defrauded, oppressed, crushed human nature lying in bleeding fragments all over the face of society, ‘ wrote an American in 1845 ____ Can we be surprised that the first generation of the labouring poor in . . . Britain looked at the results of capitalism and found them wanting?”-E.J. HobsbawmThis quotation describes some negative effects of the

A	Black Plague
B	Industrial Revolution
C	Napoleonic Wars
D	Glorious Revolution

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -What were the main reasons for the Industrial Revolution to begin in England? England had banks of raw materials from its colonies under the British crown. England had a developed banking system that encouraged the wealthy to invest in infrastructure. England possessed the infrastructure needed for textiles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Many Social Darwinists embraced laissez-faire capitalism and racism. They believed that government should not interfere in the “survival of the fittest” by helping the poor, and promoted the idea that some races are biologically superior to others.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which 19th-century economic condition was the basis for the ideas of Karl Marx? The availability of material goods increased.

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THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION