How Did Business Expansion and Consolidation Affect the Social Structure

question 34

Multiple Choice

How did business expansion and consolidation affect the social structure in the late-nineteenth-century United States?

• A) Class differences in U.S.society largely disappeared.
• B) Racial differences in the U.S.workforce largely disappeared.
• C) A new class of white male salaried managers emerged.
• D) Women were able to earn higher wages and become managers.

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