Author Question: Over the last century, historians' criticisms of the industrial capitalism of the Gilded Age have ... (Read 60 times)

cdr_15 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Over the last century, historians' criticisms of the industrial capitalism of the Gilded Age have included the

a. romantic idea that industrialization diminished workers' spiritual quality of life.
b. assertion that workers were brutalized by the industrial system.
c. argument that American living standards were not raised by industrialization.
d. claim that American industrialization sharpened class divisions.
e. assertion that most great American fortunes came from inherited wealth.

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson argued that the emergence of a large landless class of white citizens could be avoided in part by

a. a redistribution of land.
b. a reduced property tax.
c. abolishing the property qualification to vote.
d. continuing slavery.
e. restricting the amount of property owned by each citizen.