________ led a failed march of the unemployed on Washington D.C. to demand government intervention
A) Samuel Gompers
B) Jacob Coxey
C) Eugene V. Debs
D) Andrew Carnegie
Answer: B
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A. limited wages to pre-plague levels B. guaranteed a minimum wage for artisans C. barred laborers from moving from one city to another D. governed working conditions in early factories
Which of the following Egyptian deities evolved to represent rebirth and renewal of all life?
A) Osiris B) Yahweh C) Aton D) Ptah E) Anubis
Robert Owen believed that the best society would be one in which
a. business owners took care of their workers' need and provided them with decent work, decent housing, and decent education. b. the state was the chief employer to ensure economic justice. c. churches actually lived according to the Christian principles of love thy neighbor and serve God, not money. d. there was no distinction between worker and owner. e. a person had a choice of belonging to a harmonious paternalistic community or competing in a free market.
In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" were reminding voters
a. of the gory memories of the Civil War and the Republican party's role in the Union's victory. b. that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president. c. that Republicans had reformed the corrupt radical regimes in the Reconstruction South. d. that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction. e. of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.