Working-class reformers in the Progressive era strongly supported
a. enactment of a progressive income tax.
b. shorter working hours and safer working conditions.
c. restrictions on the sale and consumption of liquor.
d. ridding the cities of political bosses.
b
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How did Southerners react to freedmen's new access to greater mobility?
A) They allowed them to travel freely. B) They passed vagrancy laws to restrict their movements. C) They required former slaves to carry travelling passes when leaving their plantations. D) They assisted freedmen by supplying them with mules and wagons.
Immediately after the Civil War, many white landowners _____
A) began advertising in the North and in Europe for farm workers, determined not to use black people as slaves again B) attempted to recreate as much of the slave system as they could, even trying to use the whip to maintain discipline C) could not understand how they were to treat the former slaves since they had never been in that situation before D) decided to make the first overtures and offered shorter hours on their own, without forcing black people to work in gangs E) sold their plantations rather than having to hire and pay free black people
The missionary who urged Europeans to introduce the "three Cs" (Christianity, commerce and civilization) was
A. Eleazir Thornton. B. Wilson Wallace. C. Thomas Stanley. D. David Livingstone. E. Wilton S. Parmenter.
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring highlighted the dangers of
A) ?pesticides and herbicides. B) ?communism. C) ?socialist welfare policies. D) ?poor race relations. E) ?the exclusion of women from the financial, educational, and political opportunities.