What effect would all of the inventions of the Gilded Age have on the American people in terms of employment, living conditions, and leisure?
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An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss the electric lightâ€"people could work later, city life was safer, cities stayed "open" later hours, and had a "night life."
2. Discuss the telephoneâ€"people could communicate quicker and over longer distances. Telephone companies created job opportunities.
3. Automobilesâ€"people could commute to work, and they could travel with greater ease. Jobs opened in assembly lines. People could live in the suburbs but continue to work in the city.
4. Other inventionsâ€"electric streetcars, moving pictures, recording disks. People found new means of entertainment and travel.
5. Provide a concise and effective conclusion
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A) Plantation wives were supposed to be "ladies" with few responsibilities. B) Husbands and wives had rigidly defined separate spheres. C) Slaveholding families were unlike northern families with similar status. D) Children (black and white) were raised by white servants.
Prior to entering world war 1, the United States protested Germany's she of submarine ware fare primarily because it
A. Violated the Monroe doctrine B. Discouraged immigration to the U.S. C. Posed a direct threat to American cities D. Violated the principal of freedom of the seas