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- After industrialization, jobs increasingly took women out of their ______ - textile work, domestic services (maids, nannies, cooks)
- Under the Wade-Davis Bill...1. only white men who had not served in the confederate army could vote for delegates to the states constitutional convention 2. A majority of the states white men had to take a loyalty oath to the Union3. The states new constitution had to explicitly outlaw the practice of slavery.
- How many casualties were there at the battle of Gonzales?
- Became common after the late 1700s; larger, more advanced machines run by water wheels or steam engines required work to be performed outside the home
- Wages remained low because workers were easily
- Jim Crow laws hurt reconstruction. They did not provide lasting protection of the civil rights of formerly enslaved people.
- Because of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo's theories, people called Economics the
- The majority of children had always _______ and contributed to the family
- Regional economic makeover through coal, iron, tobacco, cotton, textile mills and railway. White Southerners who invested in these industries benefited the most. Sadly, African Americans and white farmers did not benefit.
- Industrialization within free market economies created rising ____________________ for workers
- He developed the "Iron Law of Wages"; any increase in wages among the poor only leads to a higher birth rate which causes further poverty and misery
- Industrialization created a larger middle class and more
- Industrialization illustrated the benefits of ______________________ economics and free trade; the doctrines of mercantilism lost their influence
- In the early IR, workers performed boring, repetitive tasks that required few skills and little
- Industrialization within free market economies created this type of society
- In poorer areas of the city, people lived in dirty, crowded conditions with noxious air and polluted water sources, so
- History has shown both Malthus and Ricardo's theories to be wrong; production of food and other products has actually _______________ population growth due to industrialization; people enjoy a rising standard of living
- Industrialization within free market economies created affordable products through
- Industrialization within free market economies created new technologies and labor saving
- As time passed, new industries required a more ________________________________ workforce; wages rose as skilled workers became essential