How did organized labor seek to improve conditions for workers in the 1890s, and how successful were these efforts?
What will be an ideal response?
Most students should be able to describe the Homestead and Pullman strikes, but they should also see that these represented a more aggressive stance by organized labor. Better students will go back to the material from the previous chapter and compare these strikes with the Great Railway Strike of 1877 . Students should also be able to compare the efforts of Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers, and Terrence Powderly as union leaders. Better students may point out that laws such as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act were at least tentative steps toward moving government away from business. Students should also be able to explain why these strikes were not successful.
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a. Amusement parks b. Radio c. Circus d. Vaudeville e. Television
What critique do Van Ausdale and Feagin offer of past research on children and racial identity?
A. Researchers have often sought children’s views directly, beyond recording brief responses to tests. B. Many have interviewed children or made in-depth, long-term observations to assess social attitudes. C. Children’s abilities have been seriously overestimated by reliance on techniques that do not make real-life sense to children. D. Few have interviewed children or made in-depth, long-term observations, because they assume children do not understand race.
Major Martin R. __________ was a black military officer who worked with the freedmen in the South Carolina Sea Islands during Reconstruction
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
In 1763, the Spanish acquired Louisiana from __________
A) Britain B) France C) Portugal D) the Dutch