How did the agricultural and industrial revolutions impact family life and opportunities for women?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. New constrictions on women with the shift from farm work to artisan or wage labor
2. Formal separation of domestic and work life, leading to increased focus on women and children as separate from working men
3. Shift from family economy to industrial production, thanks to new inventions and heightened demand for textiles
4. Demand for literate workers, creating new possibilities for education
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The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was
a. dependent on the import of African slaves for labor. b. based on commercial agriculture and mining. c. supported by piracy and smuggling. d. administered by Spanish missionaries.
Which of the following was true of the early twentieth-century women's suffrage movement?
A) It was led by men. B) It was most successful in the South. C) It was largely a movement of white middle-class women. D) It was at odds with the larger Progressive movement.
Which generalization about urbanization in the late nineteenth century is NOT accurate?
a. In rapidly developing countries, cities tended to integrate ethnic minorities into the country's dominant ethnic group. b. New professional social workers, city planners, and transportation and sanitation engineers replaced civic-minded volunteers. c. Sanitation, public order, and public transportation improved significantly. d. Urban populations yearned for the idyllic lifestyle of the countryside. e. Education, the press, and patriotic campaigns made city dwellers into loyal citizens.
In New Netherland the Dutch were intolerant of diverse religious practices and issued an edict that all had to convert to the Dutch Reformed Church.
a. true b. false