In Native American cultures, the social structure was determined by
a. the women.
b. the youngest members of a clan.
c. kinship groups.
d. a group of elected officials.
Answer: c. kinship groups.
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A) Blacks generally could dispute the landowner's valuation of crops or goods. B) Black men were forced to accept the white man's word in disputes over crop prices or the value of goods provided to the sharecroppers. C) Cotton brokers and gin owners paid equal prices to blacks and to whites for cotton. D) Contracts had to be written and had to be filed in court.
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a. Appear to have ended when the ice bridge melted about 20,000 years ago. b. It appears that the ancestors of the Pacific Islanders originated in northwest China. c. The Polynesians are generally a genetically homogenous group, suggesting no outside influences. d. The ultimate Polynesian origin may have been in inland Taiwan.
How did fur trading and trapping develop as a business market in the West? What changing role did Indian trappers play in this market?
What will be an ideal response?
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A. 2 billion. B. 3.5 billion. C. 4.3 billion. D. 7.2 billion. E. 8.6 billion.