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acc299 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The women who came to Lowell for mill jobs were

A) recruited only after owners failed to locate sufficient immigrant workers.
B) eager for permanent work and opportunities for advancement.
C) the first women to labor outside their homes in large numbers.
D) attempting to escape conditions of desperate poverty at home.

Question 2

The most important innovation of Francis Cabot Lowell's Waltham operation was to

A) divide the tasks of spinning and weaving into separate operations.
B) accumulate the capital of a wide-ranging group of associates.
C) use New England's swift-flowing streams to power his mills.
D) combine the steps of cotton production under one roof.

Question 3

The early mechanization of the cloth industry

A) increased both the volume and price of its goods.
B) supplemented rather than replaced home manufacturing.
C) occurred primarily in the South.
D) seldom saw women or children employed as laborers.

Question 4

Antebellum advocates of public education hoped that the schools would

A) challenge the dominance of middle-class values.
B) demonstrate the benefits of economic progress.
C) teach students to think and act independently.
D) counter unsettling effects of economic change.

Question 5

Manufacturers primarily valued education for their workers because it

A) removed child laborers from the workforce.
B) promoted feelings of self-worth.
C) encouraged habits of discipline and productivity.
D) improved intellectual skills.