Middle-class domesticity insisted upon an authoritarian family structure based upon the direct rule of the father over his wife and children.

a. true
b. false


Ans: a. true

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In 1860, three-quarters of the white population of the South were

a. planter aristocrats. b. small slaveowners. c. urban mill workers. d. European immigrants. e. non-slaveowning subsistence farmers.

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Which of the following is true of African American women in the South during Reconstruction?

A. They relied on the courts and legal system to protect them from domestic violence. B. They asserted their newly gained political rights. C. Unlike most Americans they did not see women as subordinate to men and become an example to all women. D. They were able to serve on juries and become judges.

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By the time of the Civil War, cotton constituted nearly ________ of the total export trade of the United States.

A. one-third B. half C. two-thirds D. one-fourth E. one-tenth

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When did Andrew Jackson deliver his Proclamation on Nullification?

A) 1830 B) 1831 C) 1832 D) 1833 E) 1834

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