The correct answer is:
combining spinning and weaving in the same factory
Which of the following was a significant innovation of Lowell Mills that increased productivity?
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combining spinning and weaving in the same factory
combining spinning and weaving in the same factory
separating spinning and weaving to different factories
separating spinning and weaving to different factories
employing mainly former African-American slaves for lower wages
employing mainly former African-American slaves for lower wages
relying on the expertise of German immigrants
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Which is an accurate description of a change that the Industrial Revolution brought to family life?
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Women continued in domestic roles.
Women continued in domestic roles.
More women worked outside the home.
More women worked outside the home.
Work outside the home required more education for women.
Work outside the home required more education for women.
Children were no longer expected to help out on family farms.
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Women continued in domestic roles.
Women continued in domestic roles.
More women worked outside the home.
More women worked outside the home.
Work outside the home required more education for women.
Work outside the home required more education for women.
Children were no longer expected to help out on family farms.
The correct answer is: More women worked outside the home.
“The grave [in the South] was dug through solid marble, but the marble headstone came from Vermont. It was in a pine wilderness but the pine coffin came from Cincinnati. An iron mountain overshadowed it but the coffin nails and the screws and the shovel came from Pittsburgh. . . . A hickory grove grew nearby, but the pick and shovel handles came from New York. . . . That country, so rich in underdeveloped resources, furnished nothing for the funeral except the corpse and the hole in the ground.”
– Henry Grady, Speech to the Bay Street Club, Boston, 1889
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
What is the main idea of this excerpt?
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By not purchasing products from its own manufacturers, the South helped enrich the North.
By not purchasing products from its own manufacturers, the South helped enrich the North.
Even though the South had resources it could tap, it relied heavily on the North.
Even though the South had resources it could tap, it relied heavily on the North.
All the materials for a Southern burial could only be gotten from the North.
All the materials for a Southern burial could only be gotten from the North.
Because agriculture was so profitable, the South chose not to make use of its other natural resources.
– Henry Grady, Speech to the Bay Street Club, Boston, 1889
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
What is the main idea of this excerpt?
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Responses
By not purchasing products from its own manufacturers, the South helped enrich the North.
By not purchasing products from its own manufacturers, the South helped enrich the North.
Even though the South had resources it could tap, it relied heavily on the North.
Even though the South had resources it could tap, it relied heavily on the North.
All the materials for a Southern burial could only be gotten from the North.
All the materials for a Southern burial could only be gotten from the North.
Because agriculture was so profitable, the South chose not to make use of its other natural resources.
The correct answer is: Even though the South had resources it could tap, it relied heavily on the North.
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