Which of the following was true of sharecropping when it originated?
a. It allowed African Americans to buy land on credit.
b. It was forced on African Americans by ruthless landowners.
c. It gave African Americans freedom from daily supervision by white landowners or overseers.
d. It was a humanitarian system of poor relief.
c
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An early female philosophe who published a translation of Newton's Principia and who was the mistress of Voltaire was
A) Mary Wollstonecraft. B) Marie Antoinette. C) Mary Astell. D) Catherine the Great. E) the Marquise du Chatelet.
"By the beginning of the eighteenth century land scarcity pushed both native-born and newly arrived families to look westward." Descendants of old Yankee families would establish themselves ________, while European immigrants found more luck ________.
A. in frontier New England; south of New York B. in the Hudson River valley; along the Great Wagon Road C. along the Great Wagon Road; south of New York D. south of New York; in frontier New England
Black leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois
a. demanded complete equality for African Americans. b. established an industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. c. supported the goals of Booker T. Washington. d. maintained his American citizenship and residence in the United States throughout his life, despite his profound anger and disappointment with the absence of black economic and social equality in the country. e. None of these choices are correct.
People who score high on ________ agree with statements like "Most women interpret innocent remarks or acts as being sexist."
A. hostile sexism B. benevolent sexism C. negativity bias D. confirmation bias