What did trade unions advocate?
A) shorter hours
B) higher wages
C) better working conditions
D) All of the above.
Answer: D
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Which of the following is true of disturbances in Hudson Valley?
A) The leaders received support and encouragement from the urban Sons of Liberty. B) The demonstrations were followed by Stamp Act protests in New York City. C) They quickly expanded to include grievances over land rights and political reform. D) British troops were decimated by the colonists.
Britain argued that the banning of the opium trade by Chinese authorities in 1839 was wrong because it violated
a. freedom of commerce. b. basic human decency. c. Britain's right to do whatever it wanted. d. the rights of individual Chinese to do as they pleased.
South America
a. was the original home of the Maya. b. contained societies practicing irrigated farming approximately eleven thousand years ago. c. has had human inhabitants for more than twelve thousand years. d. was populated only as recently as 500 C.E. e. was colonized from Africa rather than Asia.
Marx believed all of the following about classes and class struggle EXCEPT
a. a person's class is based on that person's role in the economy. b. class struggle is between those who own the means of production and those who do not. c. though people believe a society's dominant ideas may be universally valid, they actually only reflect the ruling class' economic interests. d. the state acts as an impartial mediator between classes. e. class struggle will eventually end.