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CLEP Western Civ II

Category - Industrial Revolution

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England's Poor Law of 1834 attempted to address poverty through which of the following methods?
  1. Requiring factories to train the unemployed
  2. Criminalizing poverty so that the poor could be imprisoned
  3. Requiring factory owners to employ workers for the entire year
  4. Providing basic social services for the poor
  5. Forcing the unemployed into dismal workhouses
Explanation
Answer: E - The Poor Law of 1834 created workhouses for the unemployed. The workhouses became the only relief available to the poor as other kinds of outreach were eliminated. The workhouses were designed to be a horrific experience since the guiding philosophy was to make conditions so undesirable that even the most meager wages would be an appealing alternative. It was the conditions of these workhouses that inspired Charles Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist.
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