Although Eighteenth-Century Food Riots Were a Direct Response to the Lack

Multiple Choice

Although eighteenth-century food riots were a direct response to the lack of available food, they were also a reaction to

A) the frustrations of the lower classes with their inability to change career paths or gain better access to education.
B) the lower classes' lack of access to the political system and their desire for government regulation of the price of grain.
C) government-mandated military service for lower-class men for years on end, which left their families without economic resources.
D) new agricultural and land-development policies such as the enclosure acts, which kicked peasants off their land and forced many into a homeless, itinerant existence.