In the late nineteenth century, several states passed laws designed to ease working conditions. Discuss the major rulings handed down by the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in response to these laws.
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a. On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery. b. It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the United States and only frustrated relations with European allies. c. On the one hand, it appeased antislavery European allies, but on the other hand, it frustrated U.S. slave owners. d. It granted African Americans only freedom, not any voting or civil rights, while at the same time infuriating their slave owners. e. It appeased southern slave owners but infuriated northern abolitionists.
As it prospered, the early Roman Empire
a. saw trade and manufacturing become significantly more important than agriculture. b. eliminated the practice of slavery. c. required people in the entire empire to speak Latin. d. saw the supply of gold and silver coins decrease in the eastern part of the empire. e. saw the development of a large gap between rich and poor.
Factors encouraging the growth of immigration rates in the first half of the nineteenth century included the
a. rapid growth rate of the European population. b. perception of America as the land of freedom and opportunity. c. introduction of transoceanic steamships. d. economic and political turmoil in Europe. e. religious oppression by European state churches.
One of the most important effects of the Union successes at Atlanta and in the Shenandoah Valley was that
a. Lee now had to retreat to North Carolina. b. Lincoln was almost assured reelection. c. Grant had to make progress much faster to keep up with the other armies. d. Sherman was given a promotion to Lieutenant General.