What kept the cost of labor low during the Industrial Revolution?
A) demand of workers for fair wages
B) government subsidies to factories
C) shrinking pool of industrial workers
D) availability of female and child labor
D
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The Land Act of 1820 reduced the price of public land and
a. redrew the boundary of Missouri to ease sectional tension. b. earmarked land-sale proceeds for canal and road building. c. invited a new wave of wild speculation. d. imposed new regulations on "wildcat" banks. e. prohibited the purchase of federal acreage on credit.
Why did Dred Scott and his family argue that they were free?
England's __________ were controversial-they disrupted the economic and social life of the countryside-but they may have led to more food production.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Which of the following accurately describes patterns of slaveholding in the antebellum South?
a) Between 25 and 40 percent of whites were slaveholders. b) Three-fourths of the white population owned at least 50 slaves. c) Slaveholding was least common in the states in the Cotton Belt. d) Slaveholding was least common in the Lower Mississippi Valley.