Source 17.1A Testimony (Elizabeth Bentley, Factory Worker)
Source 17.1B Testimony (William Harter, Mill Owner)
Source 17.2 The Condition of the Working Class in England
Source 17.3 Outside the Factory
Source 17.4 Only a Weaver
Source 17.5 The Internationale
Source 17.6 The Railroad as a Symbol of the Industrial Era
Source 17.7 Capital and Labour
Instructions
This exercise asks you to assess the relationship between conclusions and evidence. Identify which of the following conclusions are supported by the specific piece of evidence. Click yes for those pieces of evidence that support the conclusion and no for those that do not.
Conclusion A
The working classes toiled in difficult, often dangerous, working conditions.
Conclusion B
Many members of the new working class wished to return to a simpler preindustrial time before the emergence of factory wage labor.
Conclusion C
The middle and upper classes lived largely separately from the working classes and the poor.