Which answer BEST describes why factory owners often hired women and children in the 1800s? (15 points)

A. They wanted to prevent men from leaving their jobs to
work at the factories.

B. They wanted to let families work at the same jobs to
help keep them strong.

C. They wanted to hire people who work for the lowest
wages to increase profits.

D. They wanted to help women and children, who didn't
have many job options at that time.

Which of the following was a reason why the loss of alsace and lorraine to germany was a major blow to france?

Is harry truman considered a hero or a tyrant for dropping the atomic bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki? (need a paragraph)

Read the excerpt from the monsters are due on maple street. as they suddenly start toward the house. in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. steve stands in front of them. for a moment their fear almost turns their walk into a wild stampede but steve's voice, loud, incisive and commanding, makes them stop. stevewait a minute . . wait a minute! let's not be a mob! the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street. which sentence from the excerpt is an example of foreshadowing? a) as they suddenly start toward the house. b) in this brief fraction of a moment they take the first step toward performing a metamorphosis that changes people from a group into a mob. c) they begin to head purposefully across the street toward the house at the end. d) the people stop as a group, seem to pause for a moment and then much more quietly and slowly start to walk across the street.