As commerce and industry developed, which of the following does NOT correctly describe the middle class?
a. Bourgeois politicians shared more power with the landed aristocracy.
b. Rich bourgeois made it a point not to emulate aristocratic manners and pleasures.
c. Industrial wealth gave the middle class greater influence in all aspects of society.
d. Like the aristocratic and proletariat classes, the bourgeois class had many internal levels
e. The virtues of work, thrift, and ambitions were landmark characteristics of the middle class bourgeois.
b
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Which of the following was not one of the reasons why only a small proportion of blacks were able to own farms by the end of Reconstruction?
A) Most blacks lacked the capital to buy the land and equipment. B) White southerners did not want to sell their land to blacks. C) Southern industrialists needed laborers to work in their new urban factories. D) Neither Congress nor the states imposed large-scale land reform. E) Southern planters needed a source of cheap labor to work on their plantations.
After 1840, the most important stimulus to economic growth came from ________ construction.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Sports had been a traditional form of recreation for the rich; but, because it required less skill and equipment, ________ had more middle-class appeal.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Eli Whitney actually became wealthy developing the
A) mechanical cotton picker. B) mechanical cotton thresher. C) mechanical cotton spinner. D) idea for interchangeable parts, as well as manufacturing rifles with these parts for the U.S. government.