In the Dred Scott decision the Supreme Court ruled that Congress lacked the power to keep slavery out of any state or territory because slaves were property and thus protected by the Constitution.
a. true
b. false
Ans: a. true
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Plessy v. Ferguson made it legal to
A) segregate the workplace. B) segregate by gender. C) discriminate by sex. D) segregate public places.
When Joseph was told that the Nez Perce had given up their land in the Treaty of 1863 and must move, Joseph compared the situation to
a) a thief stealing chickens from a hen house and selling them as his own. b) a neighbor selling someone else's horses without consent of the owner. c) a dam breaking and an unstoppable wall of water washing away a village. d) a person moving into a neighbor's dwelling and claiming it as his own. e) a man falling off a log and ten turning the log into a canoe.
What was the main effect of mass production techniques such as the assembly line on the workplace?
A) increased efficiency B) overcrowding in the workplace C) greater liberty for workers to socialize during working hours D) a diminished interest in unionizing E) backbreaking labor for workers
The sequence of development of the flying shuttle, spinning jenny, and power loom demonstrates that
A) innovations in technology lead to bottlenecks which required further innovations to solve. B) improvements in industrial technology were scattered and random. C) no one nation could create all the machinery needed for a single industry. D) water power was not sufficient to support early industrial production. E) radical breakthroughs were more important that incremental changes in early industrialization.