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Davideckstein7

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Why did women join the work force in growing numbers in the late nineteenth century?
 
  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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President of the Central Pacific Railroad Charles Crocker's testimony about Chinese workers and immigrants expressed
 
  A) a bias in his inability to understand and treat the Chinese as individuals.
  B) a humanitarian desire to help them make a better life for themselves in the United States.
  C) a fervent passion for ending discrimination against the Chinese.
  D) an unbending racist desire to have them all deported.
  E) a facility with the Chinese language.


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ultraflyy23

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Reply #1 on: Jul 4, 2018
Answer to Question 1

B

Answer to Question 2

A


Davideckstein7

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Reply #2 on: Jul 4, 2018
Thank you


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