Author Question: In the late nineteenth century, child labor was A) common in the coal mines and cotton mills. ... (Read 108 times)

melina_rosy · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

In the late nineteenth century, child labor was

A) common in the coal mines and cotton mills.
B) uncommon because children were not strong enough to handle the large machines and fast pace of factory production.
C) uncommon because children had to stay in school until age sixteen.
D) uncommon because for the first time childhood was seen as a distinct stage of life reserved for innocence, play, education, and maternal love.
E) common in the economically-depressed south, but uncommon in the prosperous north.

Question 2

What did Henry George argue in Progress and Poverty?

A) that industrialization was the key to progress and the end of poverty.
B) that socialism was the answer to the end of poverty.
C) that industrialization had led to a great deal of misery.
D) that the government needed to fight poverty by limiting industrialization.
E) that the government should tax the unearned increment of rising land prices and use the funds to ameliorate the misery caused by industrialization.