Assume the role of a skilled craftsman in the 1820s. Tell how your life has been affected by the forces of the industrial revolution and what you intend to do in response
What will be an ideal response?
Consider:
Effects: job taken by unskilled laborer in factory; frequently unemployed; low wages; long hours.
Intentions: join a union or the Working Men's party; put wife and children to work to help family income; save to buy a house and take in boarders.
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The Knights of Labor condemned __________
A) government intervention in the economy B) the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few C) the diversification of the workforce D) labor unions, craft guilds, and workers' parties
Deists shared the ideas of eighteenth-century European Enlightenment thinkers, namely that:
a. science could uncover God's laws that governed the natural order. b. Christ's divinity was beyond question. c. the universe was unknowable. d. God did not exist.
What motivated Russia and France to form an alliance?
A. Both wanted to ensure security against Germany. B. Russia wanted to strengthen its political power so it could attack Germany, and France wanted to weaken Germany's influence so it could form alliances with other countries. C. Russia wanted the troops France could supply, and France wanted the security against Germany that Russia could provide. D. Each country feared the other would form an alliance with Germany.
When scholars refer to Western Europe as a "hybrid civilization," they are referring to the combination, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, of elements of
a. Byzantine and Slavic cultures to produce a new civilization. b. classical Roman, Germanic, and Celtic cultures to produce a new civilization. c. Slavic and Germanic cultures to produce a new civilization. d. Byzantine and Celtic cultures to produce a new civilization.