Women in nineteenth-century western mining towns
A. often greatly outnumbered the men.
B. often found work doing domestic tasks.
C. generally worked as miners.
D. had few economic opportunities outside of prostitution.
E. were nearly all single when they first arrived.
B
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a. encouraged unionization. b. upheld the right to strike. c. voided laws that had established minimum wages for women and children. d. ended child labor.
England began importing raw cotton and making cloth domestically
a. because the English Parliament banned importation of cotton cloth. b. because there was no other source of cheap clothing. c. because it badly needed the raw material for its mills. d. because its export was stopped by other countries. e. in order to support the southern states during the American Civil War.
The autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom is the life story of __________
a) Frederick Douglass b) Richard Allen c) Anthony Johnson d) Nat Turner
Taft's "dollar diplomacy" was intended to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT
A. encourage private corporations to invest abroad. B. promote American corporate interests overseas through regular use of armed force. C. foster economic stability. D. tie debt-ridden nations to the United States instead of to Europe.