Which of the following is true about labor in the early twentieth century?
a. French-Canadian immigrants and their children held one of every two jobs in New England's cotton textile industry.
b. Mexican and Filipino women and children formed a large part of the labor force in California's agricultural industry.
c. First- and second-generation immigrants constituted more than 96 percent of the labor force that built and maintained the nation's railroads.
d. Of 750,000 Slovaks arriving in America before 1913, at least 600,000 went to work in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania.
e. all of these choices.
b
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a. human beings have no genetic forebears. b. all human beings are descended, partially, from Neanderthals. c. humans are partially descended from chimpanzees. d. Homo sapiens sapiens mated with Homo floresiensis. e. some Homo sapiens sapiens mated with Neanderthals.
Discuss the role played by Tang Taizong in the rise of the Tang dynasty. What were the foundations of Tang success?
What will be an ideal response?
Which of the following arguments was most likely to have been used by southerners in the 1830s and 1840s to defend the institution of slavery?
A. It is true that slavery is an evil within human society, but for economic reasons it is presently a necessary evil. B. Society is ordered in a particular way by the dictates of nature, and nature has ordained that blacks are born to be slaves. C. All whites are born to be free and equal, but all non-whites are frowned on by God and were born to be slaves. D. Human beings are equal in the sight of God only if they have accepted the tenets of Christianity; therefore, non-Christians may be enslaved.
How did the Vikings from the eighth to eleventh centuries C.E. transform European society? What does archaeological evidence tell us about the scope of Viking activity during this time?
What will be an ideal response?