The Factory System

Question 1

How was the cottage industry different from the factory system?

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C: Products were crafted by people with years of training.

Question 2

In this passage, the “handicraft plan” refers to .

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B: cottage industries

Question 3

What is the main idea of this passage?

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A: Factory workers are degraded at work and home on a daily basis.

Question 4

Which generalization is supported by information in the text?

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A: The process of industrialization harms the environment.

Question 5

According to the author, the most expensive part of production under the “handicraft plan” is the cost of .

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A: skilled labor

Question 6

The use of child labor declined from 1851 to 1861 in .

Revolt · Accepted Answer

A: the mining industry only

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