What combination of factors accounted for the ultimate abandonment of Reconstruction?
A) the nationwide acceptance of the myth of the Lost Cause, the pardoning of Confederate leadership, and the continuing poverty of Southern African Americans
B) the leniency of Congress in admitting former Confederate states to the Union and the success of the New South economy
C) the migration of African Americans from the South to the North and the preference for sharecropping among those who remained
D) the failures of Congress to pass legislation to support civil rights and the inability of blacks to vote for delegates to state constitutional conventions
E) weak presidential leadership, the waning engagement of Northerners, and the violence and legal machinations of white Southerners
E
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He maintained that women were not naturally inferior to men and that women should have a wider role in society
He was also sympathetic in his observations concerning the value placed on women's appearance and the prejudice women met as they aged: A. Smith B. Rousseau C. Descartes D. Montesquieu E. Voltaire
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a. pyramid building. b. superb engineering skills. c. the invention of the solar calendar. d. advancement in medicine. e. the invention of the lunar calendar.