A) sewing machine
B) refrigerated rail cars
C) phonograph
D) Bessemer converter
E) refrigerated railroad cars
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A) The feminist movement encouraged farm girls and young immigrant women to work in order to become independent of their families.
B) Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes.
C) Industrialists thought women would have a civilizing influence on the brutal factory conditions.
D) Trade unions won a series of court cases opening employment opportunities for women.
E) The Civil War had created a shortage of male workers.
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A) Just as likely as it was for those from middle and upper class families.
B) Highly likely, given the affordable new technologies that made it easier to start a business with little money.
C) Completely unlikely very few workers went from poverty to enormous wealth.
D) The best way for someone from the working class to get ahead was by mastering a skill and rising through the ranks of a small company.
E) Likely, if they were willing to lie and cheat like the big companies.
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Laissez-faire is an economic theory that advocates for minimal government intervention in the economy. The term originated in France in the 18th century and translates to "leave alone" in English. It was popularized by the Physiocrats, a group of French economists who believed that the economy should be allowed to operate freely without government interference.
The significance of laissez-faire lies in its influence on economic policy and the development of capitalism. It has been a central tenet of classical liberal and free-market economic thought, promoting the idea that individuals and businesses should be free to make their own economic decisions without government regulation. This concept has had a significant impact on the development of modern economic systems and continues to be a point of debate in discussions about the role of government in the economy.
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A) Married women commonly hired maids and cooks to ease the burden of their work at home, whereas single women usually did most of the work themselves.
B) Married women commonly worked under sweatshop conditions within the tenements, whereas single women often viewed outside work as an opportunity.
C) Married women worked in cigar factories, whereas single women did needlework at home.
D) Married women were able to work in factories because of the large number of unmarried women available to provide childcare.
E) Married women had the assistance of their husbands at home and in the factory, while single women accepted an ideology of domesticity based on the idea of separate spheres.
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A) It had a strong leader in Samuel Gompers.
B) It limited its membership to skilled workers allowing the union more unity.
C) It clearly defined its objectives.
D) It was a tightly organized federation that required all members to give up their autonomy and independence for the good of the whole.
E) It focused on practical tactics aimed at bread-and-butter issues.
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A) It required a better-educated work force.
B) It allowed traditional craftsmen and artisans to maintain their dominance over production.
C) It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor.
D) It was primarily the hallmark of giant corporations.
E) It made it possible for manufacturers to eliminate human labor power altogether.
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A) Immigration restrictions.
B) Temperance.
C) The admission of blacks into local Knights of Labor assemblies.
D) Producer and consumer cooperatives.
E) Widespread and aggressive use of strikes.
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A) industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.
B) white supremacists who believed that "the South will rise again" through the subjugation of the black race.
C) fundamentalist Southern Baptists who believed that the "Second Coming" of Christ was close at hand.
D) aristocratic southern families who believed that the South would flourish again only if it returned to the plantation system.
E) Northerners who believed that a new "accomodationist" approach had to be used if the south were to be brought back to economic health.
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A) manufacturing was not interstate commerce.
B) the Granger Laws were unconstitutional because states could not regulate interstate commerce.
C) all trusts and monopolies in interstate commerce were illegal and could be broken up by the federal government.
D) employers could force employees to sign and abide by "yellow dog contracts."
E) holding companies, which simply owned a controlling share of the stock of other firms, were not subject to antitrust laws.
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A) as a bookkeeper in the textile industry in his native Scotland.
B) as a secretary for the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
C) as a foreman in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
D) as a bartender at an Edinburgh pub.
E) as an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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A) was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families.
B) founded to the Women's Christian Temperance Union to try and reduce drinking in the laboring class.
C) lobbied for reform in how the mentally handicapped were treated.
D) assassinated James Garfield in 1881.
E) persuaded Andrew Carnegie that well paid workers would be the best workers.
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