During the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
A. became more radical after the death of Samuel Gompers.
B. believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills.
C. decided to shift away from craft unions.
D. used strikes in an attempt to organize unskilled workers.
E. created a partner organization, the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Answer: B
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Political elites in the old land-based empires of Russia and the Ottomans were torn between reform and
a. war. b. revolution. c. expansionist needs. d. alliances with major Western powers. e. continuity.
All of the following are consistent with the goals of nineteenth-century liberals EXCEPT:
A. the removal of international tariffs and internal barriers to trade. B. the opposition to the old paternalistic legislation that established wages and labor practices by government regulation or by guild privileges. C. the desire for an economic structure in which people were free to use whatever talents and property they possessed to enrich themselves. D. support for efforts to reform agricultural policies and techniques. E. the desire to maintain the economic restraints associated with mercantilism or the regulated economies of enlightened absolutists.
The English monk Roger Bacon is best known for which of the following innovations?
A. Bacon argued for a system of investigating the world that relied on inductive reasoning, observation, and experimentation. B. Bacon argued that experimentation and observation led men away from divine truths. C. Bacon is responsible for bringing many East Asian inventions, such as the magnetic compass, to Europe. D. Bacon proposed that scientific discoveries could only be made outside of church teachings and that science and religion could not be reconciled.
The typical African-American boarder in the antebellum period was a(n) __________
A) young, married woman B) child under fourteen C) older woman D) young, single man