The United States changed to standard time zones when
a. Congress passed a law establishing this system.
b. the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks.
c. factories demanded standard time schedules.
d. long-distance telephones required standard time coordination.
e. All of these choices are correct.
b
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Stimulated by the Civil War, many American workers during Reconstruction formed
A) prisons. B) unions. C) asylums. D) railroad companies.
Women who worked in the early factories of the Industrial Revolution
A) were given the same pay as men. B) instigated dramatic change in pre-industrial kinship patterns. C) never represented a large percentage of the workers in textile factories. D) did not result in a significant transformation in female working patterns. E) increased their social status.
The partition of the Indian subcontinent into the states of India and Pakistan in 1947 was accomplished with almost no violence or bloodshed
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
In the decades following Reconstruction, the majority of black people who migrated left for __________
a) other locations within the South b) Liberia or other African colonies c) the Caribbean islands d) South America