What was The industrial revolution
What will be an ideal response?
It spread from Europe to America. Steamboats, canals and railroads for transportation, factories for industrialization
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As a result of the Gold Rush, what town grew into a city of 35,000 almost overnight?
A) San Diego B) Los Angeles C) Monterrey D) San Francisco
In general, late-nineteenth-century American journalism
a. printed hard-hitting editorials. b. crusaded for social reform. c. became known for its tough, investigative reporting. d. was led by eloquent and witty columnists. e. turned to sensationalist sex and scandal.
All of the following are true statements about the workers in the Lowell factory system except
a. they were virtually all New England farm girls. b. they were carefully supervised on and off the job by watchful matrons. c. they lived in company boardinghouses and were forbidden to form unions. d. they worked a maximum five days a week for eight hours a day. e. they labored under grueling working conditions.
In early America, the British immigrants reestablished their customs of inheritance by the eldest son, called:
A. inheritance. B. proscription. C. Primogeniture