Summarize the early development of industrial workers' associations. Which events and conditions had weakened the guilds' protection of workers? What were the workers' goals, and how did employers and governments react to their new organizations?
What will be an ideal response?
Essays should describe common interests and the common goals of a living wage and a minimum standard of living, but also the divisions that weakened worker solidarity. The abolition of guilds in some countries, the location of some industries outside urban areas, and unskilled factory work all weakened the guilds.
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The Embargo Act of 1807 provided for restrictions on exporting American goods and importing European goods. The law's major weakness was:
a. too many Americans could make products most people needed, rather than import them b. most farmers were unaffected by the import and export trade c. Southerners believed it served Yankee interests d. the law contained loopholes that made it difficult to enforce
To protect their interests, in the 1880s Mexican-Americans in Arizona and New Mexico
A) formed a vigilante group called Las Gorras Blancas (the White Caps). B) lobbied the government for more soldiers. C) built forts that protected their land. D) hired mercenaries to patrol their land and expel any trespassers. E) worked to convince the Mexican government to re-annex the American southwest.
____________________ prohibited the human form to be reproduced in any life-like representation because it was considered blasphemous
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward promoted a philosophy he called ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).