Author Question: One important benefit of the emergence of a new mass society was a. greater unity between ... (Read 139 times)

maegan_martin · **on:** Sep 12, 2019

Question 1

The hallmark of family life in the nineteenth century was the

a. escalating numbers of working class women in the labor force.
b. rejection of birth control.
c. trend toward making children the focus of family life.
d. rigidly defined gender roles with men as wage earners and women as homemakers.
e. declining infant mortality rates which meant slightly larger families.

Question 2

One important benefit of the emergence of a new mass society was

a. greater unity between European factory workers and middle-classes, which together composed about 55 percent of the population.
b. increased voting rights for the lower classes.
c. development of a working class, comprising 45 percent of the population, whose numbers caused middle-class Europeans to fear a seizure of power by the workers.
d. greater equality between the sexes.
e. increasingly successful labor activism.