Question

In response to the market revolution:
a. the legal system worked with local governments to find better ways to regulate entrepreneurs.
b. local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize.
c. corporations proved less able to raise capital than chartered companies did.
d. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that legislatures could not alter or rescind charters and contracts that previous legislatures had created.
e. Massachusetts Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw held in Commonwealth v. Hunt that workers had no right to organize./130685552/ch-8-9-quiz-flash-cards/

Answer 1

Answer:

B. local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize.

Explanation:

The market revolution refers to refers to the series of events that initiated by people as a form of protest to the various negative aspects caused by economy created by industrial revolution.

At that time, government did not regulate how the companies should conduct their business ethically, which lead to many problems like unfair treatment of workers, underage workers, discrimination against race, gender, or ninetieths, dangerous working condition, etc. All of these led many workers start to unionize. But some of them decided to seek their cause with violent and causing damages, which created a problem for the local government.

In response,  local judges protected businessmen from paying property damages associated with factory construction and from workers seeking to unionize in order to make sure that the union activities do not fully disrupt the economy in their territory.