The new working class
a. strongly encouraged its women or children work outside their homes.
b. experienced comfortable living conditions.
c. often worked twelve to sixteen hours a day, six days a week.
d. displaced the middle classes as the coming political and economic class.
e. were satisfied with the conditions as they existed.
c
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In economic terms, the period of the 1920s in the United States could be characterized as a(n)
A) second industrial revolution. B) era of agricultural prosperity. C) era of industrial depression. D) era of few technological developments.
After succeeding President William Henry Harrison following his death from pneumonia, President John Tyler clashed with prominent members of the Whig Party including members of his own cabinet over
A) Tyler's signing of the Land Act of 1841 making it easier for homesteaders to buy federal land or keep land on which they were squatters. B) Tyler's signature of the first federal Bankruptcy Act. C) Tyler's veto of a bill to re-create the Bank of the United States and a follow-up bill that would have created a "fiscal corporation" that would have more limited powers. D) the resolution of Canadian border problems with Britain with the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842.
Wingfield notes that previous research on the glass escalator effect assumes:
a. a racial homogenization of men workers in women’s professions. b. that rich women also ride the glass escalator. c. that the glass escalator effect is not present in occupations that requires high levels of scientific knowledge, such as among chemists. d. that the glass escalator only exists for men in high-paying occupations.
Zionism was defined as ______________.
A. the idea that Jews were not an ethnicity but a nation that needed a geopolitical state B. a movement for cultural assimilation of Jews into other nation-states C. maintaining a separate cultural identification without compromising national identity D. a synthesis of cultural and ethnic concepts, for example, the combination of the languages of Hebrew and German to form Yiddish E. an official state program of anti-Semitism