During World War I, the government provided protections for industrial workers, but after the war,
A) workers lost those gains when the government was no longer motivated to help them.
B) many workers were asked to give up their jobs to veterans.
C) the only federal mandate that remained was for employer-based health care.
D) unions were able to secure those protections instead.
E) many American workers lost their jobs to workers overseas.
A
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How did most monarchies use religion to strengthen their state?
a. Most confiscated Church property to finance their growing armies and administration. b. Most attempted to make religion one of the forces uniting their subjects into a nation. c. By separating church and state, monarchies enabled people of different religious beliefs to all pledge allegiance to the same king. d. Through prayer, kings were able to overcome their enemies. e. Most presented the state as an alternative to the divisiveness of religion.
President Ulysses S. Grant was reelected in 1872 because
a. the Democrats and Liberal Republicans could not decide on a single candidate. b. he promised reforms in the political system. c. he was the only candidate who enjoyed support in both the North and South. d. the Democrats and Liberal Republicans chose the politically and personally eccentric and dubiously sound editor Horace Greeley as their candidate. e. of the massive support of black voters in the Reconstruction South.
The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that
A. the Fourteenth Amendment was unconstitutional. B. private institutions were exempt from laws against racial discrimination. C. communities could have schools for whites only, even if there were no schools for blacks. D. racial segregation was legal if whites and blacks had equal "accommodations." E. segregation by race in education was inherently unconstitutional.
For what reason did President Wilson decide to implement conscription immediately following the declaration of war?
A) The draft gave the government more power to decide who should work and who should fight. B) The draft enabled the government to recognize the rights of religious conscientious objectors. C) Wilson believed that a military comprised solely of volunteers was a threat to American liberty. D) Wilson wanted to prevent possibly seditious German Americans from enlisting. E) It was clear that few men would voluntarily enlist.