The chapter introduction profiles several southerners: Colonel Daniel Jordan, a plantation master in South Carolina; a planter from the Red River country of Texas; Sam Williams, a skilled ironworker slave from Virginia, and his wife Nancy; Octave Johnson, a slave in Louisiana; and Ferdinand Steel, a farmer in Mississippi. Using what you have learned from the text about the class structure of the Old South, to which class does each of these people belong? Explain how each class differs from the others.
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Phoebe Apperson Hearst represents the role that women played in turn-of-the century California through her
a. interest in and promotion of architecture and the arts which resulted in the building of the famous Hearst Castle on the Central Coast to counter the structures built by J. P. Getty in the Southland. b. marriage to George Hearst, demonstrating that women's roles were strictly limited to the home. c. generous philanthropy and promotion of female teacher training, the PTA, and the California branch of the WCTU, reflective of the active role that middle- and upper-class women played in charitable organization. d. work as a professor in the University of California, reflective of women's increasing visibility in institutions of higher education.
The Yellow Turban uprising resulted from problems stemming from
A. lack of public education. B. limited social justice for women. C. poverty and land distribution. D. government corruption. E. the attacks of the Xiongnu.
Which of these made it difficult to raise livestock in many regions of Africa?
A) tsetse fly B) pastoralism C) the Bantu migration D) the harsh climate
The area that had the longest life expectancy and the fastest growing population growth through natural increase was _________
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