Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?
A. A wife could not write a separate will.
B. In marriage, a wife surrendered her legal identity.
C. A wife could not sign contracts in her own name.
D. If a wife worked, she did not control her wages.
E. She could only own property with her pastor's permission.
E. She could only own property with her pastor's permission.
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Booker T. Washington's personal philosophy was based on the idea that:
A) black Americans were better off relocating to Africa or islands in the Caribbean. B) racial integration and the power of the franchise could come only after black people acquired work skills that made them indispensable to the southern economy. C) a liberal arts education was necessary to train a leadership class. D) cooperative economic institutions would lead to political power.
Members of the planter aristocracy
a. produced fewer front-rank statesmen than the North. b. dominated society and politics in the South. c. provided democratic rule in the South. d. promoted tax-supported public education. e. were much more progressive about race and black people than white yeoman farmers and laborers in the South.
Compare the ideas and social commentary of artists and writers in the 1920s with the artists and writers of the 1820s-1850s.
What will be an ideal response?
Baroque artists sought to harmonize the
A. draftsmanship of abstract expressionism with romantic naturalism. B. seriousness of Rocco with Graeco-Roman Neo-classicism. C. ideals of Renaissance art with spiritual feelings of the religious reformations. D. iconoclasm of church art with the Neo-Gothic style. E. subconscious with the conscious.