diff --git a/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py b/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py
index 0bc60deaf..8d876a7b0 100644
--- a/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py
+++ b/jsonschema/tests/test_validators.py
@@ -2323,5 +2323,8 @@ class _ReallyFakeJSONResponse:
 
     _response = attr.ib()
 
+    def raise_for_status(self):
+        return None
+
     def json(self):
         return json.loads(self._response)
diff --git a/jsonschema/validators.py b/jsonschema/validators.py
index d370dc5b6..09e68aa8a 100644
--- a/jsonschema/validators.py
+++ b/jsonschema/validators.py
@@ -1013,7 +1013,9 @@ def resolve_remote(self, uri):
         elif scheme in ["http", "https"] and requests:
             # Requests has support for detecting the correct encoding of
             # json over http
-            result = requests.get(uri).json()
+            response = requests.get(uri)
+            response.raise_for_status()
+            result = response.json()
         else:
             # Otherwise, pass off to urllib and assume utf-8
             with urlopen(uri) as url: