Which of the following was true of northern artisans in the pre-industrial age?
a. Most could not make a living as craftsmen, and thus they also engaged in subsistence farming.
b. Most lived in seaport towns.
c. They never earned wages while working for master craftsmen as either apprentices or journeymen.
d. Most lived in rural areas, and their crafted goods were transported to urban areas for sale.
b
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During the period following the Napoleonic Wars, many of the Protestant missionaries involved in mission-based reform efforts in India used their skills in the fields of medicine, education and engineering to gain converts to their evangelical crusade to reform India along the same lines they envisioned for Britain, including all but one of the following reforms:
a. better working conditions for the poor b. worldwide abolition of slavery c. the abolition of “barbaric” practices d. a vigorous Christian missionary effort
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a. opposition to abusing the constitutional system of checks and balances. b. concern about the high-tariff, soft-money, and pro-labor views of radical Republican Benjamin Wade who would become president if President Johnson were convicted by the Senate. c. fears of creating a politically destabilizing and uncertain period of time in the nation. d. President Johnson promised to obstruct some of the Republican policies in return for remaining in office. e. President Johnson promised not to run for president in 1868 if acquitted.
The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson
A. asserted that through nature, individuals could find personal fulfillment. B. remained a deeply religious clergyman throughout his life. C. was a leading critic of the American political system. D. asserted that organized religion served no useful purpose in society. E. believed American thinkers should be allied with European intellectuals.