Which of the Following Is True About Labor in the Early

question 79

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about labor in the early twentieth century?

• A)French-Canadian immigrants and their children held one of every two jobs in New England's cotton textile industry.
• B)Mexican and Filipino women and children formed a large part of the labor force in California's agricultural industry.
• C)First- and second-generation immigrants constituted more than 96 percent of the labor force that built and maintained the nation's railroads.
• D)Of 750,000 Slovaks arriving in America before 1913, at least 600,000 went to work in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania.
• E)all of these choices.

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