What do you judge to be the most negative consequences of American industrialization in the late nineteenth century? Explain your choices. Who do you think "lost" the most in this economic transformation? Why?
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: loss of quality craftsmanship; depersonalization of the relationship between ownership/management and labor, and between producer and consumer; uprooting of people; decline of agriculture; exploitation of workers; monotony of the assembly line process; concentration and maldistribution of great wealth; loss of individual independence, etc.
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What did U.S. relations with Canada and the Soviet Union have in common during the Reagan administration?
A. Both improved based on personal friendships between leaders. B. Both were largely antagonistic due to major political differences. C. Both improved based on economic rather than political interests. D. Both deteriorated due to Reagan's international law violations.
Leo Tolstoy?s greatest novel, War and Peace,
A) glorified war. B) depicted the harsh reality of life during the Napoleonic period and explored the conflicting ideologies of the era. C) demeaned the Russian people?s struggle against Napoleonic aggression. D) described the tumultuous events surrounding the Decembrist revolt of 1825. E) analyzed the development of Russia.
As a result of the Confederate victory in the Peninsula Campaign
a. Britain and France committed to sending economic and military aid to the Confederacy. b. Lincoln named Ulysses S. Grant as commander of the Union forces. c. Lincoln delayed his issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. d. the Union turned to a strategy of total war. e. Lincoln abandoned the war in the West.
The majority of Americans blamed the Depression on all of the following except
a. the capitalist system. b. big business. c. the Republican party. d. President Hoover. e. none of these choices.