Women-headed households are over-represented among the poor for what reason?
A. More women than men lack education or skills.
B. Women are expected both to work outside the home and to take care of their children.
C. More single mothers than single men live in areas in which there are few jobs.
D. All of these answers are correct.
Answer: B
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A) they supplied the Akan states on the west coast of Africa, who required slave labor to clear the forests. B) they believed the Africans to be fit only for slavery. C) Benin invited Portugal to join in the slave trade. D) Portugal?s extensive colony in Brazil demanded cheap labor. E) they were in economic competition with the Dutch.
Which nation did France consider the greatest threat to its security during the 1920s?
A) Germany B) Russia C) Britain D) Italy E) Spain
The Fordney-McCumber Tariff had the economic effect of
a. encouraging American manufacturers to produce for overseas markets. b. forcing European producers to lower their prices in order to sell in American markets. c. inducing Europeans to raise their own tariff barriers, virtually killing international trade. d. enabling American farmers to dump their products overseas and thus maintain higher prices at home. e. creating increased American trade with Mexico and Canada, which were not covered by the tariff barriers.
William Lloyd Garrison:
a. secretly financed Nat Turner's Rebellion. b. began publishing his newspaper in Richmond, Virginia, in 1831, but moved it to friendlier territory two years later. c. attracted little support from fellow abolitionists, but historians have discovered his importance. d. suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery. e. published American Slavery As It Is, an influential pamphlet.