With respect to the middle-class family after 1820, all of the following explain the decline in family size in general and in the birth rate in particular EXCEPT
A. the use of birth control methods.
B. parents' desire to improve the standard of living of themselves and their children.
C. delaying marriage until one had the financial means to support a family.
D. a view of family more geared to functional usefulness than affection.
Answer: D
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A) Slave families were protected by the law. B) Slaves were allowed to take their masters to court. C) Slaveholders were forced by law to treat their slaves benevolently. D) Slaves were treated humanely in the antebellum South. E) Slave reproduction mattered to plantation owners.
By paying the colonial governor of a royal colony directly, instead of letting the colonists pay him, the king ___________ the colonists' power over the governor.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
By 1875, white Democrats had regained authority in __________
A) Virginia B) Mississippi C) Florida D) South Carolina
By the late Middle Ages, members of the nobility __________.
A. had broken into two recognizable groups: higher and lower B. were moving toward becoming merchants and traders C. resorted to warfare only when they were attacked D. rejected the code of chivalry