Thomas Alva Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, was one of the first to be devoted to __________.

A. improving worker efficiency
B. industrial research
C. solving environmental problems
D. fighting diseases


Answer: B

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a) Lower the cost of food b) Increase the food supply c) Raise the price of farm products d) Combat the effects of the Dust Bowl

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What did some in the business community find attractive about progressivism?

a. Nothing; the business community opposed all forms of progressivism. b. Business owners, like progressives, wanted to clean up city governments and political contests. c. Progressivism believed in progress and efficiency, two industrial business values. d. Progressives wanted to control corporate abuses, reform child labor laws, and ensure factory safety—all of which were industrial business values as well. e. Progressives fought for women's and African American's rights, two things from which industrial businessmen would gain.

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