Author Question: How did laundry owner Curt Muller, who argued that current law deprived his workers of the right to ... (Read 46 times)

jc611 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What type of emotion might saloonkeepers and their clients have felt when they saw prohibitionist Carry A. Nation in costume and with hatchet as she would march into saloons?

A) humor
B) religious devotion
C) fear
D) strength

Question 2

Why did Northerners oppose President Polk's proposal to extend to the Pacific coast the 36 30 line that separated free states from slave states?

A) Most of the lands gained from Mexico were below this line and likely to enter as slave states.
B) The Mexican territory was not part of the original Louisiana Purchase so this line did not
apply to it.
C) Mexico threatened a second war if slavery was permitted in its former territory.
D) Former Mexican territory north of this line would still be slave states.

Question 3

The idea of individuals entering into a contract with Satan as shown in this woodcut is parallel to __________.

A) Puritan views on the lower status of women
B) the Puritans' covenant with God
C) perceptions of Indians torturing settlers on the frontier
D) beliefs that wealthy people were unreligious and wicked

Question 4

How did laundry owner Curt Muller, who argued that current law deprived his workers of the right to control their own labor, react to the Supreme Court's decision in Muller v. Oregon?

A) He lowered the maximum hour rate for his female employees.
B) He fired all his female employees and replaced them with Chinese men.
C) He instituted more beneficial health and disability qualities for his female employees.
D) He hired a larger number of women to work in his laundry.