How did factory work and recreation change in the 1920s?
What will be an ideal response?
Factory workers experienced lower wages, longer hours, and the de-skilling of work due to mass production techniques. Yet owners also made concessions to win or maintain workers' loyalty, such as offering medical insurance, pensions, paid vacations, and sick days.
Listening to sports, music, comedy, and drama on the radio and taking car trips became popular leisure activities. Technological and economic factors combined to bring about the development of a national consumer culture.
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A) influential B) large C) cosmopolitan D) multiethnic
Crop prices fell heavily at the end of the 19th century due to crop ______________. This led to many farm foreclosures, and an increase in the number of tenant farmers.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
In the peace negotiations at Paris after the Revolution:
A) Britain refused to sign an agreement unless the United States, France, and Spain agreed to its terms. B) France achieved all of her war aims. C) the United States achieved all of her war aims. D) the United States, France, and Spain signed separate treaties with Britain.
Which of the following statements best describes California politics in the 1850s?
a. There was great unity among Democrats and Republicans to defend California as a free state. b. Politics in the state reflected the sectional divisions in the nation. c. Californians stayed away from the political divisions of the rest of the nation. d. Californians overwhelmingly supported the American Party and its anti-immigrant platform.