Robert Owen believed that the best society would be one in which
a. business owners took care of their workers' need and provided them with decent work, decent housing, and decent education.
b. the state was the chief employer to ensure economic justice.
c. churches actually lived according to the Christian principles of love thy neighbor and serve God, not money.
d. there was no distinction between worker and owner.
e. a person had a choice of belonging to a harmonious paternalistic community or competing in a free market.
a
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Given what you know about the impact of the agricultural and industrial revolutions concerning the lives of women, which of the following statements is most applicable?
A. As the revolutions progressed, the role and importance of women already in the work force diminished. B. Women sought their traditional roles and would not, despite social pressures, work in factories. C. Women were unable to work in factories with the same output and effectiveness as their male counterparts. D. The economic freedoms women gained during the industrial revolutions carried over to the early years of the suffrage movement. E. As a group, women gained in independence and status.
Perhaps the greatest success story in Africa in recent decades as been in South Africa where in the 1990s
a. the black minority achieved equal rights as the result of a successful revolution. b. the white majority granted economic equality to the nation's black population. c. apartheid was abolished and non-whites achieved political and social equality. d. F. W. de Klerk was elected the nation's first black prime minister. e. separate regions were set aside for the country's black population.
Which of the following was true of education in the eighteenth century?
A. Completion of high school was expected of boys but not of girls. B. Regardless of one's social status, literacy was considered essential. C. Higher education was available to all young men. D. A small number of young men from elite families began to enroll in colleges to study for careers other than the ministry.
European market towns emerged first
a. at the edges of forests. b. on the top of hills and mountains. c. in political capitals. d. on inland plains. e. near rivers and seas.