Read the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines.” Nevertheless, the UMWA was able to bridge the racial divide in that state, forming a powerful interracial labor union fifty years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s would make racial integration the rule of the land. What is the connotation of the word powerful? muscular loud energetic influential

The answer is D. Influential

Explanation:

In the excerpt from "Finding Unity in the Alabama Coal Mines", the word "powerful" in "forming a powerful interracial labor union" is used to show the reader the strength and importance of the UMWA. Additionally, in this context, the word "powerful" is used as a synonym of "influential" because the author uses this word to explain the effect or impact the organization had regarding civil right movements, even before the first movements emerged "fifty years before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s". Thus, the connotation or secondary meaning of this word in the text is "influential"

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the service industry in the united states grew in the late 1800s. what was one effect of that growth?

the number of people with jobs in factories as unskilled workers decreased.

the number of people with jobs in factories as unskilled workers increased.

the middle class grew as people took jobs as clerks, lawyers, and teachers.

the middle class shrank as people left jobs as clerks, lawyers, and teachers.