Which statement best characterizes how the increase in immigration changed the U.S. economy in the mid-1800s?
a. Immigration hindered economic growth because immigrants came in such large numbers that there were not enough resources for everyone.
b. Immigration slowed down the Industrial Revolution because immigrants launched frequent and effective labor protests.
c. Immigration boosted the economy because immigrants provided much of the capital that was needed for infrastructure and entrepreneurship.
d. Immigration boosted the economy by providing the skilled labor that was desperately needed in the labor force.
e. Immigration accelerated the Industrial Revolution by providing a large pool of cheap factory labor.
E
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a. the ancient Hebrews. b. Sargon of Akkad. c. Ashurbanipal. d. Hammurabi. e. Gilgamesh.
The Luddites who resisted industrial change engaged in acts of violence in
a. France. b. Germany. c. the Netherlands. d. England. e. Eastern Europe.
Among groups that have similar roles for women and men, such as the Israeli Kibbutz societies, what impacts upon sex differences in mortality and morbidity do these egalitarian gender roles have?
A. Sex differences in health status or illness tend to be reduced or disappear entirely. B. Sex differences in longevity disappear but differences in illness remain. C. Meta-analyses of gender egalitarian cultures find no impact upon longevity or illness. D. Sex differences in life expectancy become larger in such cultures.
President Thomas Jefferson's Indian policy included
A. an offer to Indians to become settled farmers and join white society, and to reorganize their territory as a separate state in the Union. B. an offer to Indians to become settled farmers and join white society, and an insistence that they give up claims to tribal lands in the Northwest. C. an offer to Indians to reorganize their territory as a separate state in the Union. D. an offer to Indians to have full citizenship in the United States and the right to vote. E. the insistence that Indians reduce the size of their exclusive tribal lands in the Northwest, as well as allow some limited hunting by white settlers on those lands.