Which of the following constituted a majority of the workforce of the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1860?
a. native-born single women
b. native-born single men
c. the children of immigrants
d. immigrants
d. immigrants
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In eighteenth-century Europe, the nobility consisted of approximately ________ percent of the population
A. 1 to 5 B. 5 to 10 C. 10 to 15 D. 15 to 20
Why did overproduction of crops that largely resulted from mechanized agriculture hurt farmers economically during the 1920s?
A) The ability to grow more crops drove prices down. B) Mechanized agriculture eliminated jobs for many farm laborers and sharecroppers. C) Foreign countries placed high tariffs on imported American agricultural products. D) More farming led to soil exhaustion which produced the massive dust storms that destroyed crops.
Christian monasteries promoted what as a type of prayer?
a. warfare b. sexual c. work d. mercantile e. politics
During Reconstruction, per capita income for Southerners
A. rose for blacks and declined for whites. B. rose for blacks and whites. C. declined for whites. D. rose for whites. E. rose for blacks.