(MC)The quote below is from Henry Ford in the early 1900s: “It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.” –Henry Ford Based on the quote, what conclusion can be made about the United States during the 1900s?
Read Details(MC)The text below was written in the early 1900s: Be It Resolved, That the Negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in Liberty Hall, in the City of New York and United States of America, from August 1 to August 31, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty, protest against the wrongs and injustices they are suffering at the hands of their white brethren, and state what they deem their fair and just rights, as well as the treatment they propose to demand of all men in the future. Source: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5122 Which group is associated with this text?
Read Details(HC)This quotation is from Andrew Carnegie’s 1889 book, The Gospel of Wealth: “While the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, for it insures the survival of the fittest in every department.” Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=q5ALvRp61wgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=best%20for%20the%20race&f=false, page 4 How does this quote reveal Carnegie’s support for the ideas of Social Darwinism?
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