Of the following groups, which benefited the least from New Deal policies?
a. middle-class consumers
b. European ethnics
c. northern factory workers
d. southern industrial workers and farm laborers
e. the elderly
d
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Monastic life appealed to Christians because __________.
A. it appeared to be an especially pure form of religious practice B. monks could become very wealthy C. unlike priests, monks were allowed to marry D. monks were not expected to serve for life
Which of the following is NOT a clearly defined long-term result of the shift in female employment?
A. Women, as a group, made little or no economic contribution to Europe's economy. B. Women's work became associated with the home rather than with places where men worked. C. The laboring life of most women was removed from the new technologies in farming, transportation, and manufacturing. D. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people assumed that women worked only to supplement a husband's income. E. Domestic service became the single largest field of female employment.
The ecological revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries did not lay the foundation for future
a. globalization. b. population growth. c. exploitation of resources. d. religious conflict.
Which of the following was true of the invention of the cotton gin?
A) It allowed for the profitable cultivation of cotton, even in land with poor soil. B) It facilitated the cultivation of cotton in North America. C) It greatly increased the cost of cotton cultivation. D) It led to the Northeast becoming the world's largest producer of cotton. E) It led to slave labor's becoming less valuable than before.