The factory villages where entire families labored for mill owners in the process of cloth production was known as the
a. Lowell system.
b. Waltham system.
c. Rhode Island system.
d. Massachusetts system.
e. Carnegie system.
c
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Which of the following is a likely description of how early humans domesticated plants?
A. After careful observation, early humans began to understand the science behind plant growth, which enabled them to grow crops on a very large scale. B. Humans separated out the seeds of those plants they liked to eat over generations by chance and slowly began to observe that they could coax these plants to grow by placing their seeds in the ground. C. As human societies grew larger and more complex, they collectively decided that growing food for themselves would be far more efficient than gathering it from the wild. D. As global temperatures began to fall roughly 10,000 years ago, humans had to rapidly develop more reliable ways of feeding their communities. The domestication of plants was therefore the outcome of ecological necessity.
Regarding employment, free blacks in the Upper South __________
A) were never hired by whites because they could get free slave labor B) faced less competition from immigrants until the 1850s, and therefore could get jobs in industry more easily than blacks in the North C) were skilled tradespersons, such as carpenters, bakers, and barbers D) could generally get jobs only as barbers within the black community
The rising spikes in the increasing rates of inflation and unemployment that took place during the 1970s represent __________
A) "stagflation" B) an economic depression C) a boom-and-bust cycle D) sustainable growth
A major reason progressive women such as Jane Addams turned to settlement work was __________.
A. dissatisfaction with the choices that society offered to women B. their belief that women are more compassionate than men C. because settlement work required less professional training D. out of boredom with their loveless marriages