Which of the following is a true statement about American industrial workplace conditions?
a. Employers worked hard to keep workplaces safe.
b. As many as one quarter of immigrant steelworkers were killed or injured on the job.
c. New laws protected workers from being compelled to work excessive hours
d. Children were a rare sight at workplaces.
e. All of these choices.
b
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In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to
A. emphasize the importance of craft and quality in the workplace. B. create a large labor force of highly skilled workers. C. reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks. D. encourage industrial workers to act creatively to solve production problems. E. make industrial workers more independent in carrying out their jobs.
The priority of the Ming government after 1433 was to
a. create a strong international trade. b. keep the Mongols from ever invading China again. c. build a Great Wall on its southern border. d. unify China and enlarge its borders to those of the pre-Jin era. e. transform China into an international power.
In what respect were Qing China and the Ottoman Empire similar in the nineteenth century?
a. Both created industrial economies that enabled them to compete with Europe on an equal footing. b. Both successfully strengthened and centralized their states to defend their territory from European intrusion c. Both lost their independence to Japan in the late nineteenth century d. Both were semi-colonies within the informal empires of Europe
At the end of the Seven Years' War, the Americans ________, while the British ________.
A. were suffering from war-induced economic hard times; were saddled with a great war debt B. celebrated their contributions to victory; voiced contempt for American soldiering and suspicions of American self-interest C. were proud to be British; were comparably proud of their fellow Englishmen in America D. sought to keep British troops to protect them from the Indians; thought the Americans should settle and defend the Ohio Country on their own