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Text 4 Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the e- mergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period. Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured be- cause, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement -- utopian socialism -- which was al- ready popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades th
A. approval of the specific focus of their research.
B. approval of their general focus on social conditions.
C. disapproval of their lack of attention to the issue that absorbed most of the Saint-Simonians’ energy after 1832.
D. disapproval of their lack of attention to links between the Saint-Simonians and their American counterparts.

Text 4 Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the e- mergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period. Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured be- cause, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement -- utopian socialism -- which was al- ready popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during the two decades th
A. be worldwide.
B. most influence the United States.
C. emphasize dogmatic religious principles.
D. continue to develop new feminist ideas.

Text 4
Students of United States history, seeking to identify the circumstances that encouraged the e- mergence of feminist movements, have thoroughly investigated the mid-nineteenth century American economic and social conditions that affected the status of women. These historians, however, have analyzed less fully the development of specifically feminist ideas and activities during the same period.
Furthermore, the ideological origins of feminism in the United States have been obscured be- cause, even when historians did take into account those feminist ideas and activities occurring within the United States, they failed to recognize that feminism was then a truly international movement actually centered in Europe. American feminist activists who have been described as "solitary" and "individual theorists" were in reality connected to a movement -- utopian socialism -- which was al- ready popularizing feminist ideas in Europe during th
A. the culminating achievement of the utopian socialist movement.
B. the work of American activists who were independent of feminists abroad.
C. a manifestation of an international movement for social change and feminism.
D. primarily a product of nineteenth-century Saint-Simonian feminist thought.

Text 4
Most economists in the United States seem excited by the spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market. A price that is determined by the seller or, for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate of consumers seems harmful. Accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price-fixing (the determination of prices by the seller) as both "normal" and having a valuable economic function. In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that it requires. Modern industrial planning requires and rewards great size. Hence, a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for the same group of consumers. That each large firmwill act with consideration of its own needs and thus avoid selling its products fo
A. Soviet firms show greater profit.
B. Soviet firms have less control over the free market.
C. Soviet firms are able to adjust to technological advances.
D. Soviet firms have some authority to fix prices.

Text 2
People in the United States in the nineteenth century were haunted by the prospect that unprecedented change in the nation’s economy would bring social chaos. In the years following 1820, after several decades of relative stability, the economy entered a periodof sustained and extremely rapid growth that continued to the end of the nineteenth century. Accompanying that growth was a structural change that featured increasing economic diversification and a gradual shift in the nation’s labor force from agriculture to manufacturing and other nonagricultura pursuits
Although the birth rate continued to, decline from its high level of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the population roughly doubled every generation during the rest of the nineteenth century. As the population grew, its makeup also changed. Massive waves of immigration brought new ethnic groups into the country. Geographic and social mobility -- downward as well as
A. Women's lives significantly improved as the United States economy expanded
B. Women had more opportunities for employment in the western United States than in other regions
C. The home after 1820 was a superior social entity to that of the eighteenth century
D. Increased social fragmentation negatively affected middle class family life