Which of the Following Statements Accurately Describes the Response of Many

question 102

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements accurately describes the response of many everyday Americans to the new social order of the Gilded Age?

• A) From the academic world to the public sphere, public discussion gave new attention to class differences and debates over the implications of economic change.
• B) Discussion of class became almost nonexistent because Americans were so wary of sparking conflict that might result in another civil war.
• C) Because the United States was moving away from an industrial economy, farmers became increasingly powerful in political circles.
• D) Employers and employees grew far more trusting of each other due to economic downturns that helped close the economic gap between them.
• E) Americans were predominantly complacent with poverty because their working conditions were so much better than those of their European counterparts.

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Definitions:

Reactants

Ingredients that are present from the start in a chemical reaction, getting used up as they generate the outcome products.

Equilibrium

The state in which both reactants and products are present in concentrations which have no further tendency to change with time, usually in a closed system.

Product

The result of multiplying two or more numbers together or the substances formed at the end of a chemical reaction.

Concentration

The measure of the amount of a sub-component (especially solute) in a solution, denoting how much of a substance is contained in a certain amount of another substance.