Describe the impact of the industrial revolution on life in the northern states. Who benefitted and who lost as a consequence of the changes the industrial revolution brought to society?
What will be an ideal response?
Consider: urbanization; commercial agriculture; factory system; wage labor; transportation innovations; immigration; higher standard of living; concentration of wealth; breakdown of craft skills; etc. Factory owners were big winners, skilled workers were big losers.
You might also like to view...
Why was the American fleet caught by surprise when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor?
A. Cryptographers erred in translating the Japanese message and believed that the Japanese planes were on their way to the Philippines. B. President Roosevelt deliberately did not warn the fleet that an attack was imminent. C. Faulty radar equipment prevented detection of Japanese aircraft as they approached the naval base. D. The message warning of the imminence of a Japanese attack was transmitted by a slow method and arrived too late.
After bursting on the national scene in the 1892 presidential campaign, the Populists hoped to
a. gain complete political control of the western farming and mining states. b. forge a closer alliance of Midwestern and Southern farmers. c. reach out to urban workers and assault the northeastern citadels of power. d. displace the Democrats as America's second major party. e. persuade Congress to pass their program of government ownership of the railroads, telegraph, and telephones.
All of the following is true about Vietnamization, EXCEPT:
a. It called for a generous immigration policy for Vietnamese. b. Better trained and better equipped Vietnamese units would assume the brunt of the fighting. c. American soldiers would return home. d. Public support at home would grow and anti-war protests would ebb off.
Which of these is true of the workers who built the Great Pyramid?
a. Only male workers were used. b. No slave labor was involved. c. Laborers were sacrificed when the chamber was completed. d. Skilled laborers were the only ones allowed to work on the pyramid. e. Architects were brought in from Mesopotamia.