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CLEP US History I

Category - Economy

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Many viewed the economic disparity between the workers and the industrialists as an affront to liberty in the early 19th century for which of the following reasons?
  1. Freedom of assembly did not apply to those advocating for reform.
  2. Factory worker had fewer rights than slaves.
  3. National trade unions violated employers freedom to set wages.
  4. Marx's Communist Manifesto had become popular.
  5. The wage system went against ideals of freedom social equality.
Explanation
Answer: E - The wage system and its undemocratic assessment of the value of labor concerned many. As a new industrial class began to emerge, social critics’ voices argued that this creation of an elite class went against the egalitarian principles on which the nation had been founded. Although Marx was writing in the mid-19th century, it would take decades for his work to be widely read and find a following in the United States.
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