Analyze the reasons for the limited success achieved by organized labor in antebellum America
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Industrialization undermined traditional skills and reduced most workers to "wage slaves." Periodic depression made workers reluctant to endanger jobs through organized protests. Waves of immigration increased the numbers of workers and contributed to a growing cultural and ethnic diversity that compounded workers' differences.
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A) A budget surplus B) A drop in the balance of trade deficit C) The lowering of tax receipts D) a surging stock market E) All of these choices
A(n) _________ consortium had begun gigantic earth-moving work to build a Panama Canal in 1879, but as a result of landslides, flooding, tropical diseases, and engineering disputes, it finally went bankrupt in 1888.
a. British. b. American. c. French. d. Colombian.
Examine the changing nature of African political development in Songhay, the Swahili city-states, and the kingdom of Kongo. Who were the main leaders? What were the most important turning points?
What will be an ideal response?
What was done with a king's body when he died? What happened to an Inca king's body after his death?
a. ritual burning b. submerged in Lake Titicaca c. mummified d. buried under this throne e. he was eaten by his slaves