Examine Figure 15-1. What general factors explain the comparative racial trend in illiteracy rates for southern blacks and whites between 1870 and 1900?
A) car or truck ownership, hobbies, length of residency
D) gender, eye color, hair color
C) height, weight, and age
D) poverty, segregation, and racism
Answer: D
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a. and its colonies were to trade exclusively with each other. b. had a smaller population than the colony. c. portected the basic rights of the indigenous peoples of its colonies. d. All of these answers are correct.
The text states that no Enlightenment philosopher was more dangerous to the Old Regime than which champion of democracy?
a. Rousseau b. Locke c. Voltaire d. Hume e. Kant
Locke's theory of education
a. questioned the Christian belief in a sinful human nature. b. indicated that nurture is more important than nature. c. held that a person must test knowledge with his own sense experience. d. assumed all knowledge ultimately comes from the senses. e. all of the above
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A) establishing that women are morally superior to men B) establishing a sense of solidarity with other women C) gaining political equality with men D) gaining economic equality with men E) competition with other women to be most virtuous