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The image shows a portion of a slave ship.

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A
Enslaved persons were forced into crowded conditions to carry as many people as possible.
B
Enslaved persons were chained to each other.
C
Enslaved persons died from many diseases because of the ship’s overcrowded conditions.
D
Enslaved persons tended to starve to death.
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Why did Europeans enslave Africans for labor in the Americas?

A
There weren’t enough criminals and captives to do the work.
B
They had already exploited and decimated Indigenous populations in the Americas.
C
Enslavers were afraid to enslave Indigenous people because they were outnumbered by them.
D
Indigenous people demanded to be paid for labor, so enslavers captured Africans instead.
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What did reformers in the early 1800s claim were problems with the British parliamentary system? Choose two answers.

A
Too many women had been elected to Parliament.
B
Factory workers were making poor choices at the polls.
C
Only wealthy landowners were allowed to vote.
D
Rural areas had no representatives in Parliament.
E
Large cities were not well represented in Parliament.
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This satirical lithograph, published by Currier and Ives in New York in 1869, comments on the feminist movement.Which statement most likely represents the point of view of Currier and Ives?

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A
Women should be allowed to vote because they dress better than men.
B
Women should not be allowed to vote because gender roles will be reversed.
C
Women should not be allowed to vote because more women will go to the polls than men.
D
Women should be allowed to vote because it will force men to act more responsibly.
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Read this excerpt from Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England.Every great city has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. . . . The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse [trash], without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead.

A
Industrialization has created poor living conditions.
B
Mass production has led to the birth of industrial cities.
C
Steam-power machinery has destroyed the environment.
D
Workers in cities need to try harder to improve their living conditions.
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Which asset made Belgium a good place to establish the first industrialized textile manufacturer in continental Europe?

A
natural resources
B
railroad infrastructure
C
skilled workers
D
active entrepreneurship
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Which is an example of a new technology that helped the factory system grow during the early stages of the Industrial Revolution?

A
washing machines
B
computers
C
typewriters
D
steam engines
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The chart below shows the economic cost of two school lunch

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A
The healthier lunch is more expensive because it helps to reduce childhood obesity.
B
The healthier lunch is more expensive because its beverage costs more.
C
The healthier lunch is more expensive because its dessert costs more.
D
The healthier lunch is more expensive because it uses better-quality ingredients.
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[BLANK]

A
agriculture
B
machinery
C
textiles
D
transportation
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Which best describes what happened to New Harmony?

A
The community was a failure.
B
The community was a success.
C
The community was destroyed by fire.
D
The community still exists.
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As in Europe, the growth of industrialization in the United States occurred

A
in large cities.
B
regionally.
C
by state.
D
nationally.
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Collective bargaining means bargaining with workers who

A
strike individually.
B
debate regularly.
C
refuse to join unions.
D
belong to a union.
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In the early 1800s, why were European governments able to promote economic growth?

A
The end of the Napoleonic Wars brought stability.
B
The discovery of natural resources generated funding.
C
The development of the railroad created opportunities.
D
The new manufacturing technology created opportunity.
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An outline for an argumentative essay about capitalism and socialism

A
cites primary sources.
B
explains the essay’s structure.
C
chooses evidence to support a claim.
D
chooses evidence to support a counterclaim.
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[BLANK]

A
Henry Bessemer
B
Francis Cabot Lowell
C
Lowell Mills
D
Samuel Slater
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How did the passage of compulsory school attendance laws affect child labor in the United States?

A
Children received better training to work in factories.
B
Children could not work in factories if they had to attend school.
C
Children worked in special factories that were opened in schools.
D
Children were paid more to attend school than to work in factories.
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Government leaders have decided to build a new school for the local school district.For which projects would a government leader most likely use a cost-benefit analysis? Select four options.

A
The exterior color of the building.
B
The type of technology used within the school.
C
The equipment needed in the cafeteria to provide healthy or unhealthy lunches.
D
The installation of a fountain at the front of the building.
E
The equipment needed for art facilities within the school.
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To determine the total economic cost of building a courthouse, a government leader should

A
multiply the cost of labor by the cost of materials.
B
add the cost of labor and materials.
C
subtract the cost of labor from materials.
D
divide the cost of labor by the cost of materials.
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The graph shows suffrage reform in the United Kingdom.What is the best conclusion that can be drawn from this graph?

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A
Women won the right to vote in the UK in the year 1884.
B
In order to vote, people in the UK had to own property.
C
Over time, Parliament passed laws that allowed more and more people in the UK to vote.
D
People in the UK had little say in government and in most elections chose not to vote.
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What is a potential benefit of offering a health and wellness program to government workers?

A
Workers will have to pay less for lunches they buy at work.
B
Workers will get sick less and miss fewer days of work.
C
Workers will have to pay more for lunches they buy at work.
D
Workers will get better faster and miss fewer days of work.

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