What were Luddites?
a) shadowy groups of English workingmen who destroyed factory equipment that they believed threatened their livelihoods
b) soldiers in the West Yorkshire Infantry sent to put down anti-factory riots
Consider This: How did the Combination Acts make anti-factory riots more likely? See 7.5: Narrative: “No General but Ludd Means the Poor Any Good!”
c) specialized engineers who worked exclusively repairing Arkwright engines in factories
Consider This: How did the Combination Acts make anti-factory riots more likely? See 7.5: Narrative: “No General but Ludd Means the Poor Any Good!”
d) mythical Yorkshire figures based on Robin Hood’s Merrie Bande
Consider This: How did the Combination Acts make anti-factory riots more likely? See 7.5: Narrative: “No General but Ludd Means the Poor Any Good!”
a) shadowy groups of English workingmen who destroyed factory equipment that they believed threatened their livelihoods
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a. a positive example for future democratic government. b. an increase in tax revenues for municipal services. c. an appalling record of "due process" violations. d. a major reduction in the crime rate.
In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major industry that developed in the western economy?
A. mining B. both fur trading and ranching C. commercial farming D. fur trading E. ranching
By the early twenty-first century, gay men and lesbians in the United States
A. saw some openly gay politicians win election to public office. B. were experiencing a powerful backlash from within American society. C. All these answers are correct. D. achieved many of the same milestones that other minority groups had attained in earlier decades. E. were making slow, halting progress in achieving laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual preference.
In order to gain southern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen Douglas had to add an amendment explicitly repealing the __________
a. Wilmot Proviso b. Missouri Compromise c. Compromise of 1850 d. Bill of Rights e. new Fugitive Slave Law