Explain how higher literacy rates worked to provide consumers for the Second Industrial Revolution.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. Literacy seen as an important skill for newly enfranchised voters
2. How a literate public became consumers of literature and other print media
3. Newspapers as a site for advertisements and mail-order catalogs as a form of print media
4. Newspapers as tools for promoting political opinion
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Which New Deal program did the Supreme Court declare unconstitutional?
A) Commodity Credit Corporation B) Civilian Conservation Corps C) National Recovery Administration D) Tennessee Valley Authority E) Civil Works Administration
Gerrymandering is the practice of
A. the partisan redrawing of district lines to influence election results. B. rigging elections by tampering with ballot boxes. C. giving jobs, food, and other aid to the urban poor in exchange for votes. D. encouraging voters to vote multiple times.
According to Table 23.1, the manufacturing production of the world had taken a clear shift toward
a. the British colonies. b. the Far East. c. the West. d. British controlled India. e. the newly unified nations of Italy and Germany.
Iron production was transformed by Abraham Darby's discovery that it was much cheaper if
a. machines could do the work of hammering iron better than humans. b. mills operated with hydroelectric power produced stronger iron. c. coke was used in the place of charcoal in the smelting process. d. taconite was a more valuable byproduct than the iron itself. e. people worked better for higher wages.