Did the headright system benefit the wealthy gentry in Virginia? Why?
A. Yes, because it allowed them to sell all of their farm goods above market price.
B. Yes, because it allowed them to amass more land and obtain laborers to work that land.
C. No, because large farms were subdivided as the number of adult males increased.
D. No, because it made them politically powerless.
Answer: B
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a. Both men believed in opposing business owners to gain workers' rights. b. Both men believed in limiting entry into skilled crafts fields, so as to increase competition and quality. c. Both men believed in the workers' rights to better wages and safer working conditions. d. Both men believed in socialist reforms that would give the laborers full ownership of the means of production. e. Both men believed in immigrant and unskilled workers' rights to join unions and advocate for equal wages, hours, and housing.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
What impact did fair housing and employment legislation, passed from the 1940s through the 1960s, have on African and Mexican Americans?
a. African American and Mexican American residents remained in the urban core to take advantage of employment opportunities in the industries that remained there. b. Discriminatory real estate and housing practices kept African American and Mexican American residents in the decaying urban core while job opportunities also declined as many industries relocated to the suburbs. c. Housing and job opportunities both improved for a significant minority of African Americans and Mexican Americans. d. The laws were passed too late to have a positive effect on Mexican Americans and African Americans.
Yodanis’s article found:
a. women in The Coffee Shop segregated themselves by social class. b. the women she studied were surprisingly open to socialize across class lines. c. gender always seems to trump class in small towns. d. women in the Coffee Shop were overconfident