To doubt and question what one has been told is true is a defining characteristic of __________
A) skepticism
B) empiricism
C) induction
D) deduction
A
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In the 1970s and 1980s, job opportunities for African Americans both improved and worsened. What explains this dichotomy?
a. The migration of industrial jobs to the suburbs led to a decline of jobs in inner cities where African Americans were concentrated; at the same time, more blacks opened their own businesses. b. The migration of industrial jobs out of the state led to a decline of blue-collar employment in inner cities where poor African Americans were concentrated; at the same time, more blacks opened their own businesses than in any other part of the country. c. Affirmative-action programs led to more hiring of African Americans in service-sector jobs. This was an improvement in that there were new jobs created in urban areas; however, it led to a decline in wages and benefits compared to industrial jobs. d. African Americans began to move to the suburbs where they found better-paying jobs, but many experienced discrimination and were not hired for these jobs.
Research suggests that ________ women are most concerned about their appearances and most invested in treating their bodies as improvement projects.
A. White middle-class and affluent B. Latina C. African American/Black D. working-class
How did the question of slavery impact the Constitutional Convention?
A) It caused few real problems. B) Generally northerners were willing to support southern concerns. C) It threatened to disrupt and destroy the work of the convention. D) Southern delegates were eager to compromise on most significant arguments. E) It was resolved, but left the South at a disadvantage.
The Black Codes passed by southern legislatures in late 1865 and 1866
a. gave former male slaves the right to vote. b. distributed abandoned plantation land. c. declared that slaves who served in the Union Army were rebels. d. restricted African Americans' economic opportunities.