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Low-cost flyboats offered an attractive alternative to heavier, more costly ships; however, their use was limited in many areas due to:
 a. privateering and piracy.
  b. colonial laws that specified minimum crew sizes for many voyages.
  c. the Navigation Acts.
  d. the inability of New England shipbuilders to manufacture flyboats.

Question 2

In Coppage v. Kansas (1912), the Supreme Court held that
 a. all employers were required to offer employees the option of joining a union.
  b. an employer's right to require that employees sign yellow-dog contracts was protected by the 14th Amendment.
  c. yellow-dog contracts were illegal for any business engaged in interstate commerce.
  d. using federal troops to break strikes was a legitimate use of police power.
  e. All of the above.



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Answer to Question 1

a. privateering and piracy.

Answer to Question 2

b. an employer's right to require that employees sign yellow-dog contracts was protected by the 14th Amendment.



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