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- Which statement best describes the Fourteenth Amendment?It granted citizenship to all individuals living in the United States.It enfranchised all male citizens and gave them the right to vote.It prevented states from denying citizens equal protection under the law.It allowed states to seize citizens' property without due process of the law.
- Which statement best describes the Wade-Davis Bill?The bill was passed in Congress and quickly approved by President Lincoln.The bill required a greater show of loyalty for readmittance than Lincoln's plan.The bill required states to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to be readmitted.The bill was proposed by supporters of Johnson's plan for Reconstruction.
- served the purposes of capitalists since they amused the working classes and diverted attention from their misery
- introduced medical insurance, unemployment compensation, and retirement pensions to provide social security for working people in industrial society in Germany
- was: attracted little foreign investment and developed little mechanical industry. foreign owners controlled plantations that produced exported crops and most profits went abroad. low wages of plantation workers.
- industrialization transformed societies and fertility began a decline. short run-mortality fell even faster than fertility so populations continued to increase
- a day workers often observed to lengthen their weekly break from work on Sundays
- should be abolished and worked toward the institution of a radically egalitarian society
- were an organized band of English handicaft workers who destroyed textile machines that they blamed for their unemployment ( after machine centered factories became popular)
- "wealthy clique" - huge industrial empires built by private entrepreneurs
- What was the dominant form of industrial organization in Europe, the United States, and Japan by the end of the 19th century?
- industrial production--> wealth and a large portion flowed to the middle class. Family went through change during period; less common for family to work in groups
- when imperial authorities pushed it and hired foreign experts to instruct Japanese workers in techniques of modern industry
- Why didn't James Watt's steam engine adapt well to transportation uses?
- What was crucial to industrialization?
- a Russian finance minister who oversaw construction of the trans-Siberian railroad, reformed commercial law, protected infant industries, promoted nautical/engineering schools
- experienced economic growth through the export of primary products and the infusion of foreign capital and labor
- gradually improved the lives of working people and reduced the likelihood of proletariat revolution of industrial capitalist society
- What fuel source led to the production of cheap iron after 1709?
- What product became even cheaper to produce after Henry Bessemer revolutionized the process?