The developments referenced by the image most directly contributed to United States involvement in

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"Question: Is there any difference between the conditions under which machinery is made now and those which existed ten years ago?
Answer:...Well, the trade has been subdivided and those subdivisions have been again subdivided, so a man never learns the machinist trade now....In fact, through this system of work, 100 men are able to do now what it took 300 to 400 men to do fifteen years ago. By the use of machinery and the subdivisions of the trade they so simplify the work that it is made a great deal easier and put together a great deal faster. There is no system of apprenticeship, I may say, in the business. You simply go in and learn whatever branch you are put at, and you stay at that unless you are changed to another...."
- Testimony of machinist John Morrison to a U.S. Senate committee, 1883 Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations between Labor and Capital, 48th Cong. (1885), 755-59.
Which of the following groups was most sympathetic to the concerns expressed in the testimony above?

"Question: Is there any difference between the conditions under which machinery is made now and those which existed ten years ago?
Answer:...Well, the trade has been subdivided and those subdivisions have been again subdivided, so a man never learns the machinist trade now....In fact, through this system of work, 100 men are able to do now what it took 300 to 400 men to do fifteen years ago. By the use of machinery and the subdivisions of the trade they so simplify the work that it is made a great deal easier and put together a great deal faster. There is no system of apprenticeship, I may say, in the business. You simply go in and learn whatever branch you are put at, and you stay at that unless you are changed to another...."
- Testimony of machinist John Morrison to a U.S. Senate committee, 1883 Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations between Labor and Capital, 48th Cong. (1885), 755-59.
The quote above illustrates growing unrest between

"Question: Is there any difference between the conditions under which machinery is made now and those which existed ten years ago?
Answer:...Well, the trade has been subdivided and those subdivisions have been again subdivided, so a man never learns the machinist trade now....In fact, through this system of work, 100 men are able to do now what it took 300 to 400 men to do fifteen years ago. By the use of machinery and the subdivisions of the trade they so simplify the work that it is made a great deal easier and put together a great deal faster. There is no system of apprenticeship, I may say, in the business. You simply go in and learn whatever branch you are put at, and you stay at that unless you are changed to another...."
- Testimony of machinist John Morrison to a U.S. Senate committee, 1883 Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations between Labor and Capital, 48th Cong. (1885), 755-59.
Large-scale production assisted by the strategies outlined in the quote above

"Question: Is there any difference between the conditions under which machinery is made now and those which existed ten years ago?
Answer:...Well, the trade has been subdivided and those subdivisions have been again subdivided, so a man never learns the machinist trade now....In fact, through this system of work, 100 men are able to do now what it took 300 to 400 men to do fifteen years ago. By the use of machinery and the subdivisions of the trade they so simplify the work that it is made a great deal easier and put together a great deal faster. There is no system of apprenticeship, I may say, in the business. You simply go in and learn whatever branch you are put at, and you stay at that unless you are changed to another...."
- Testimony of machinist John Morrison to a U.S. Senate committee, 1883 Report of the Committee of the Senate upon the Relations between Labor and Capital, 48th Cong. (1885), 755-59.
The changes described in the excerpt above most clearly demonstrate an evolution in

"Economically speaking, aggregated [accumulated] capital will be more and more essential to the performance of our social tasks. Furthermore, it seems to me certain that all aggregated capital will fall more and more under personal control. Each great company will be known as controlled by one master mind. The reason for this lies in the great superiority of personal management over management by boards and committees. This tendency is in the public interest, for it is in the direction of more satisfactory responsibility. The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. The capital which we have had has been wasted by division and dissipation, and by injudicious applications. The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. The waste was chiefly due to ignorance and bad management, especially to State control of public works. We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. This development will be for the benefit of all, and it will enable each one of us, in his measure and way, to increase his wealth. We may each of us go ahead to do so, and we have every reason to rejoice in each other's prosperity. . . . Capital inherited by a spendthrift [person who spends money freely] will be squandered and re-accumulated in the hands of men who are fit and competent to hold it. So it should be, and under such a state of things there is no reason to desire to limit the property which any man may acquire."
The excerpt best reflects which of the following economic developments in the late 1800s?

"Economically speaking, aggregated [accumulated] capital will be more and more essential to the performance of our social tasks. Furthermore, it seems to me certain that all aggregated capital will fall more and more under personal control. Each great company will be known as controlled by one master mind. The reason for this lies in the great superiority of personal management over management by boards and committees. This tendency is in the public interest, for it is in the direction of more satisfactory responsibility. The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital. The capital which we have had has been wasted by division and dissipation, and by injudicious applications. The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. The waste was chiefly due to ignorance and bad management, especially to State control of public works. We are to see the development of the country pushed forward at an unprecedented rate by an aggregation of capital, and a systematic application of it under the direction of competent men. This development will be for the benefit of all, and it will enable each one of us, in his measure and way, to increase his wealth. We may each of us go ahead to do so, and we have every reason to rejoice in each other's prosperity. . . . Capital inherited by a spendthrift [person who spends money freely] will be squandered and re-accumulated in the hands of men who are fit and competent to hold it. So it should be, and under such a state of things there is no reason to desire to limit the property which any man may acquire."
The practices of big-business leaders in the late 1800s best reflect which of the following actions illustrated by the excerpt?

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Which of the following most directly contributed to the trend in African American migration?

What was the main effect of the changes shown in this graph on the western United States?

Which of the following is one important continuity and urban life in the United States throughout the 19th century?