Which of the following issues did not impede the growth of unions in the late 19th century?
A) Divisions between skilled craftsmen and common laborers
B) Ethnic and religious diversity of the working class
C) Limited financial resources
D) Lack of interest on the part of workers because their real wages were rising and conditions were improving
E) Divisions over tactics
D
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Most of the utopian communities in pre-1860s America held ____ as one of their founding ideals
a. rugged individualism b. pacifism c. capitalism d. opposition to communism e. cooperative social and economic practices
When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, people in South Carolina
a. waited to see how other southern states would act. b. were very upset because they would have to secede from the Union. c. vowed to give their loyalty to Stephen Douglas. d. rejoiced because Lincoln's election as president provided secessionist South Carolinians with the political pretext to vote in the state legislature in favor of secession. e. accepted the democratic process and vowed to support Lincoln.
The majority of Irish immigrants arrived in which part of the United States?
a) Northeast b) Northwest c) Southeast d) Southwest
Which of the following statements was true concerning freedom of expression during the seventeenth century?
a. Even in the Netherlands, those who opposed the Calvinist clergy could be detained without a time limit for release. b. The publishing industry was still strictly controlled toward the end of the eighteenth century. c. The liberality professed at Oxford University offered students the chance to express heretical ideas. d. Those who professed Enlightenment principles hoped for more social freedom but were unwilling to attack political institutions in print. e. Freedom of expression was practiced only in English-speaking countries.