Which of the following was a consequence of the Great Awakening?
a. It eventually led to increased tolerance of religious diversity.
b. It brought intellectualism into religion.
c. It created a new sense of unity between the genteel and the ordinary.
d. It made it more difficult for individuals to question those in positions of political or religious authority.
a
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The richest English colonies were those located in
a. New England. b. the Middle Colonies. c. the Chesapeake region. d. the Caribbean.
Identify a true statement about the Lowell System
A) It was a sales-and-distribution model for large machinery. B) It was a production model for manufacturing locomotives. C) It developed out of the need for cheap labor. D) It failed to bring all stages of textile production under one roof. E) It featured mainly elderly women with no families.
Which of the following best describes the differences in the ideas about freedom held by former slaves and their northern allies?
a) Former slaves attempted to maintain the family task system of work rather than adopt the individual piecework system northern capitalists pushed. b) Former slaves sought to improve their prospects by migrating to cities, while the federal government hoped to find employment for them in rural areas. c) Former slaves hoped to resettle elsewhere as individual farmers rather than continue to work the land that their families had worked for generations. d) Former slaves were more interested in gaining a liberal arts education rather than the vocational training many northerners wanted to provide.
Many influential businessmen paid substitutes to fight in their place in the Civil War. This practice was unethical because
A) the government was already paying soldiers a salary.
B) the practice perpetuates a social order where the wealthy are in danger.
C) the practice perpetuates a social order where the wealthy are protected, and the poor expendable.
D) many people became wealthy by being professional soldiers.