1. what factories required employees to work long hours six days a week? a. banks b. steel mills c. sweatshops d. shirt factories 2. who were exodusters? a. chinese americans who fled the west after the gold rush b. native americans who fled the west and settled in canada c. african americans who fled the south after the end of reconstruction d. western cowboys covered with dirt at the end of a cattle drive

Question 1

The correct answer is: "sweatshops".

The term sweatshop is used in a pejorative manner to describe a working place with socially unacceptable, and even risky working conditions. These can involve danger, underpayment, etc. Even child labor can be found there.

Question 2

The correct answer is: "African Americans who fled the South after the end of Reconstruction"

The terms exodusters is used to refer to African Americans who migrated in 1879, after the Civil War, from the Southern states located along the Mississippi River until Kansas.

the american rail road was the most influential and useful transportation system developed in the 1800's with steam locomotives and in the very late 1800's and early 1900's diesel electric locomotives being used to transport goods and people around the newly expanded united states!