Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was
a. installment credit buying of cars.
b. voluntarily permitting unions to organize in his auto plants and agreeing to negotiate a union contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) over wages, benefits, and worker safety issues.
c. introducing a variety of automobile models with varied colors and styles.
d. design changes that improved speed.
e. production of a standardized, relatively inexpensive automobile.
e
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Which of the following is true of the Knights of Labor under the leadership of Terence Powderly?
A. It sought to establish a cooperative society in which workers owned the means of production. B. It changed its name to the American Federation of Labor in 1886. C. It instigated the Haymarket riot. D. It refused membership to blacks and women.
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century nativism has burgeoned in response to a new wave of immigrants from __________.
a. Africa b. Latin America c. Europe d. Asia
The root cause of the battle between Congress and President Andrew Johnson was
a. Johnson's personal vulgarity and crude style of campaigning. b. the president's former ownership of slaves. c. Johnson's "soft" conciliatory treatment of the white South clashed with the congressional emphasis of promoting black freedom and racial equality in the South by many Republicans in Congress. d. Johnson's "class-based" policies that favored poor whites over the white planter and manufacturing classes. e. Johnson's underlying loyalty to the Democratic party.