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Which piece of information would most help a historian create an interpretation of this photograph of workers in a factory?
The type of products the factory produced
Why did factory owners prefer to hire women and children to work for them?
During the industrial revolution, factory owners preferred to hire women because they were able to carry out hand skill tasks efficiently and for a longer period at once. Women were easy to manage while in groups and they offered their labor at affordable costs.
What were called sweatshops in the early 1900's?
Factories that hired children at low wages who would suffer dangerous work areas, unethical bosses, and sudden loss of employment were what came to be known as "sweatshops".
Why were immigrants often hired to work in sweatshops?
Immigrants would work for low wages in unsafe conditions
Why would a factory owner would favor imperialism?
Because then they would have a steady flow of natural resources. Colonies exist to primarily give necessary raw materials to the homeland and create goods.
Why did the idea of socialism emerge during the Industrial Revolution?
Under Marx's theory the building of industry and the process of industrialism would create a large diversity between the Rich factory owners and the poor factory workers. The quality of life and work for the workers would fall and if the owners didn't give equal rights to their workers they could form unions, or revolt against the Factory owners and also the government for allowing the owners to keep those owners in power and keeping the workers quality of life low. When a revolt of the would occur it would overthrow the pro-factory leadership and install a pro-socialist or pro-poor class leadership which then these leaders would implement the changes to move to socialism, by letting the government take control of the market, and in which would pass laws improving the quality of life of the poor and middle class workers and slowly destroy the rich class.
Why would factory owners want to set up factories in other countries?
To make money or more money.
Which piece of information would most help a historian create an interpretation of this photograph of workers in a factory?
The type of products the factory produced
Who would least likely support the new Whig party that emerged by 1836?
immigrant Catholics
What if laws did not exist What would happen?
Children would be working in sweatshops and nobody would have a living wage.
What would happen if there were no employment laws?
Children would be working in sweatshops and nobody would have a living wage.
Who believed that the urban poor would eventually rise up against the factory owners?
Karl Marx, a German philosopher and economist, believed that the urban poor would eventually rise up against the factory owners in a revolution. Marx argued that the conflict between the working class (proletariat) and the capitalist class (bourgeoisie) would lead to the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a socialist society.
What laws were passed in order to stop factory owners from building factories in cities where people lived?
The laws that were passed in order to stop factory owners from building factories in cities where people lived were known as zoning laws. They prohibited any activity that would encroach other people's activities.
Who would most likely support a democratic candidate in 1896 supporters of tariffs or factory owners or commercial interests or southern farmers?
Populists
Why did factory owners prefer to hire women and children to work for them?
During the industrial revolution, factory owners preferred to hire women because they were able to carry out hand skill tasks efficiently and for a longer period at once. Women were easy to manage while in groups and they offered their labor at affordable costs.
Which of the following situations would create a buyer's market?
A factory laying off a lot of workers in the area.
What was first needed in order for a factory to be established?
Factories need machinery and power, so to create a factory you would need the machinery to fit your needs and the power to run it.
