Why did the National Recovery Administration (NRA) set low minimum salaries in laundry services and tobacco production?
A) Those industries were disappearing and there was no need to prop up a vanishing labor force's wages.
B) Large numbers of African-Americans worked those industries, and racism worked against them from within the NRA.
C) Women predominantly worked those industries, and sexism worked against them from within the NRA.
D) Because the NRA administrators used arbitrary formulas that sometimes randomly worked against a given group of workers.
Answer: B
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a. Trade between the colonies and the West Indies had declined. b. There was enormous demand in the colonies for British finished products. c. Industrialization was taking place in the colonies. d. Enforcement of the Navigation Acts had become more strict. e. There was enormous demand in the colonies for raw materials from England.
Why are urban spaces considered key to the development of full-fledged civilizations in the Bronze Age?
A. The concentration of people allowed for sophisticated organization and extensive job specialization. B. Cities tended to be major gathering points for nomadic herders. C. Cities produced the best soldiers for ancient warfare. D. Hunting and gathering cultures could organize effectively with large settlements to use as a base of operations.
The key argument put forth by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and other opponents of the Treaty of Versailles was that the treaty
a. failed to provide adequate German financial reparations for the United States. b. gave too much influence to small, anti-American nations. c. violated American sovereignty and robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers. d. did not grant the United States a veto in its Security Council. e. would require U.S. troops to serve in international forces.
In the early classical era, the political structure of the ancient Greeks
A. usually consisted of independent, autonomous city-states. B. was very similar to that of Egypt. C. achieved unification through a monarchy under Pericles. D. was a history of early, long-lasting centralized government. E. stabilized after conquest by Persia.