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This satirical lithograph, published by Currier and Ives in New York in 1869, comments on the feminist movement.Which statement most likely represents the point of view of Currier and Ives?

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Women should be allowed to vote because they dress better than men.
B
Women should not be allowed to vote because gender roles will be reversed.
C
Women should not be allowed to vote because more women will go to the polls than men.
D
Women should be allowed to vote because it will force men to act more responsibly.
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What were goals of Hine in publishing this photograph? Choose three answers.

A
to get laborers to work harder
B
to draw attention to the dangers of child labor
C
to show how mature child workers were for their ages
D
to show how young factory workers could be
E
to get Congress to ban child labor
F
to increase the salaries of child laborers
G
to show that children made good factory workers
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When workers go out on strike, they are

A
choosing to look for another job.
B
refusing to work until conditions improve.
C
helping their bosses by working harder.
D
joining a union.
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The list below describes working conditions in factories in the 1800s.What conclusion did reformers draw from the list?

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Factory work was preferable to life on a farm.
B
Changes were needed to improve working conditions.
C
Factory owners always did their best for workers.
D
The government should avoid getting involved in labor issues.
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Why did factory owners and management often use force against striking workers?

A
They wanted to protect their families in case of worker uprisings.
B
They wanted to show that they were tough enough to run dangerous factories.
C
They hoped the use of force would keep the government from getting involved.
D
They hoped the use of force would keep workers from joining unions in the future.
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What did reformers in the early 1800s claim were problems with the British parliamentary system? Choose two answers.

A
Too many women had been elected to Parliament.
B
Factory workers were making poor choices at the polls.
C
Only wealthy landowners were allowed to vote.
D
Rural areas had no representatives in Parliament.
E
Large cities were not well represented in Parliament.
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A
join unions
B
work longer hours
C
vote for better representation
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The graph shows suffrage reform in the United Kingdom.Based on this graph, it is reasonable to assume that by 1930 the percentage of the population with the right to vote was

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the same as in 1884.
B
smaller than in 1884.
C
greater than in 1918.
D
smaller than in 1918.
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Read this excerpt from a New York State commission investigating living and working conditions in tenement houses.Another great evil of tenement house manufacturing was the fact that it made legally possible the work of little children in manufacturing pursuits at home, when the law rigidly excludes them from such occupations in the factories. Children as young as five, six, and seven years of age were found doing work. One little girl, aged 7, testified that she worked until eight o’clock in the evening.

A
Fire and building safety codes were not being followed in factories.
B
Young children were doing manufacturing work in tenement houses.
C
Work done in tenements was more profitable than work done in factories.
D
Workers were not being allowed to organize unions or to hold meetings.
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How did the passage of compulsory school attendance laws affect child labor in the United States?

A
Children received better training to work in factories.
B
Children could not work in factories if they had to attend school.
C
Children worked in special factories that were opened in schools.
D
Children were paid more to attend school than to work in factories.

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