The Gordon Riots in London were started because of ______________.
A. grain shortages
B. allowing Catholics to serve in the army and own land
C. workers being denied the right to form unions
D. the passage of the Combination Act of 1799
E. a police crackdown on workers who had broken manufacturing equipment to protest low wages
Answer: B
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What quality was shared by those who engaged in utopian social experiments and more conventional social reformers?
A) a desire to radically transform traditional family arrangements B) a belief in the basic depravity of humanity C) an interest in strengthening the social position and legal rights of women D) a faith in Americans' ability to collectively improve their lot E) a wish to retire from mainstream American society
Why did the National Recovery Administration (NRA) set low minimum salaries in laundry services and tobacco production?
A) Those industries were disappearing and there was no need to prop up a vanishing labor force's wages. B) Large numbers of African-Americans worked those industries, and racism worked against them from within the NRA. C) Women predominantly worked those industries, and sexism worked against them from within the NRA. D) Because the NRA administrators used arbitrary formulas that sometimes randomly worked against a given group of workers.
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Concerning the role of women in traditional China, which of the following is not true?
A. Women could not participate in sacred family rituals. B. Women could not aspire to roles in the government. C. Women could not inherit property. D. Women were prohibited, on penalty of death, from studying the Confucian classics. E. All of the above.