When the Declaration of Independence was written, the first few lines written by the founding fathers read: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are equal…”. Based on this document above, do you think the founding fathers and Americans at this time included enslaved peoples in the general category of “men”? Why or why not?

Which sentence below best describes the factory working conditions during the industrial revolution? 1. wages for an individual male factory worker were not enough for a family to get by on. usually another person had to work, which often ended up being a woman or child. they were paid less to do the same work as the men, and working conditions were very poor. 2. factory work became more popular than farming because it allowed for a man to support his family on his own. plus there were incentives for hard work. the higher production output was, the higher the wages workers were paid by their employer.