The Fair Labor Standards Act, passed in 1938, helped American workers by
(a) banning the closed shop
(b) creating universal health insurance
(c) establishing a federal minimum wage
(d) ending the outsourcing of American jobs
Answer: (c) establishing a federal minimum wage
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Why did the political, economic, and social reforms implemented during the Qing Dynasty during its final decades fail to arrest the decline of Manchu rule? Was there an alternative political, economic, and social reform course that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty could have consistently followed that would have averted the weakening decline of Manchu rule and the successful European imperialist penetration of China?
What will be an ideal response?
By the 1960s, developed countries decreased the rate of mortality and had made the "demographic transition" toward
a. decreased life expectancy. b. increased mortality rates. c. lowered fertility rates. d. rapid population growth. e. embraced euthanasia.
Why did Rockefeller ultimately reorganize Standard Oil as a holding company in the late nineteenth century?
A) To control competition by purchasing the production facilities of competitors and shutting them down B) To purchase and hold the assets of competitors so that those competitors had no capital or collateral to use for expansion C) To legally combine competing companies under a central administration D) To minimize competition by investing heavily in both the production and the distribution of products
Which of the following is NOT a part of the declarations of rights in state constitutions?
A) trial by jury B) free speech C) freedom of religion D) voting