Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1.  The idea of a "glass ceiling" means that women and minorities have limited access to career and occupational mobility. 
2.  By the dawn of the Civil War, only a very small part of the southern economy depended on slave labor. 
3.  Brown v. Board of Education (1951) was a signal that American society was growing intolerant of educational segregation for black school children. 
4.  An aspect of abolitionist ideology was to argue for the inhumane treatment of blacks. 
5.  Programs such as affirmative action have increased white resentment toward blacks. 


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE

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