Why did the Confederacy have reason to believe European nations, especially England, would rally to its aid when the Civil War began? Explain why England failed to recognize or offer more aid to the Confederacy
What will be an ideal response?
Southerners believed England was dependent on southern cotton for its textile industry. But England stockpiled cotton and found alternative sources when the Civil War began. England also had qualms about recognizing a slave power. Actually, Europeans were more dependent on the North for grain than they were on southern cotton.
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A) remarkably receptive to technological change. B) devastated by cheaper products from England. C) slow to adopt the newest inventions. D) heavily subsidized by the federal government.
Most black women in urban America held jobs before and after marriage in the mid-1800s
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
All the following factors inhibited the growth of labor unions EXCEPT
A. the political strength of industrial capitalists. B. ethnic divisions among workers. C. a lack of labor union size sufficient to stage successful strikes. D. the large number of immigrant workers. E. the question of whether to include women members.
The young, charismatic leader of the successful Montgomery bus strike was
a. Stokely Carmichael. b. Malcolm X. c. Martin Luther King, Jr. d. Bob Moses.