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Question 1

What happened with the English Poor Law Act of 1834?
 
  a. It established workhouses where jobless poor people were forced to live.
  b. It placed a tax rate of 50 percent on the wealthy and redistributed that money to the poor.
  c. It never got out of Parliament.
  d. It reclassified people with less than one hundred pounds annual income as poor.
  e. It forced the poor into the British navy.

Question 2

The state in Britain contributed to the Industrial Revolution by
 
  a. passing laws allowing for enclosure of common lands.
  b. fostering enterprise that expanded trade routes.
  c. revising the electoral system to allow middle-class subjects to vote and thus shape policy.
  d. protecting private and intellectual property under the law.
  e. all of the above



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