How Did Local Governments Respond to the Growing Numbers of Urban

question 52

Multiple Choice

How did local governments respond to the growing numbers of urban poor in the eighteenth century?

• A) They attempted to round up beggars and the unemployed and send them to rural areas to work on farms and other agricultural projects.
• B) They relied almost entirely on religious charities and hospitals to house and feed the growing urban poor.
• C) They created institutions called beggar houses or workhouses that were part workshop, part hospital, and part prison.
• D) They locked all beggars, vagrants, and loiterers in prison in the belief that they were criminals and had no place in open society.

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