One reason the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was successful was that this organization
(a) focused on the needs of skilled workers
(b) rejected the use of strikes and boycotts
(c) ended the use of blacklists by employers
(d) called for government ownership of industry
Answer: (a) focused on the needs of skilled workers
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a. brought little improvement for most Indians. b. created a large and growing middle class. c. was directed by Indian technocrats. d. never really materialized. e. eliminated malnutrition in India.
The main focus of the intellectual and philosophical search for identity was figuring out
a. who was in charge of one's destiny. b. what was the proper place of an individual in the world. c. what was the meaning of life. d. how one could reconcile philosophy and religion. e. what would come in the afterlife.
The “elect” were
a. the democratically chosen political leaders of the Puritans. b. men and women who had earned salvation. c. people whom God in his mercy had granted grace. d. Puritans who fled from Massachusetts. e. none of these choices.
An implication of Las Casas' argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the
(A) importation of European and African wildlife to the Americas (B) large-scale clashes between native armies and the Spanish (C) resistance of indigenous groups to religious conversion (D) epidemics brought to the Americas by Europeans