Why was the Hart, Schaffner agreement important in the history of industrial relations?
a) It was the first successful experiment in collective bargaining.
b) It introduced the techniques of industrial psychology to the workplace.
c) It created an agreement that legalized the use of strikes by workers.
d) It was a decisive victory of corporate interests over the labor movement.
a) It was the first successful experiment in collective bargaining.
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Which of the following factors limited the gains made by nonwhite Americans under the New Deal?
A. Conservative rulings by the Supreme Court in cases such as that of the Scottsboro Boys B. Roosevelt's fear that the public would link him with militant black activists if he supported programs primarily designed to help nonwhites C. Roosevelt's naïve belief that the New Deal was race neutral D. President Roosevelt's need for support from southern Democrats to secure passage of his legislative program
How might Reconstruction have been different if Lincoln had not been assassinated?
A) African Americans might have gained political and economic rights sooner, since Lincoln was a strong supporter of equal rights for all Americans. B) Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan would not have developed in the South and African Americans would not have been violently attacked. C) Women would also have gained the right to vote, since Lincoln would have encouraged this in the Fifteenth Amendment. D) Lincoln would have refused to allow any former Confederates to participate in the Republican government. E) Since Lincoln favored more leniency toward the South, readmission of southern states might have happened more rapidly.
During World War I, who served as a special assistant to the secretary of war, advising on matters related to African Americans?
a. Booker T. Washington b. W. E. B. Du Bois c. Emmett J. Scott d. Joel Spingarn
What perennial problem did China share with Rome?
a. lack of educated people to serve in government b. a primarily agricultural economy c. an insecure method of succession for leaders d. an inability to get foreigners to accept their culture