During the period of Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, former slave owners re-enslaved African Americans under the age of 21 through
a. legal quasi-adoption of orphans and other children whose parents could not care for them.
b. indentured servitude if their parents were not legally married or were declared as not employing the children in honest industrious occupations.
c. legal guardianship by declaring parents "unfit" often without any evidence supporting the claim.
d. labeling it a substitution for payments of the debts of their parents.
b
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a. liberal b. radical left c. conservative d. radical right
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A. Women live less long due to factors such as maternal mortality and female infanticide. B. Women tend to live longer than men. C. Men and women have the same average longevity. D. Men live longer due to their increased access to health care and higher socio economic status.
In industrial societies, social cohesion is achieved through _____
a. organic solidarity b. kinship systems c. religious beliefs d. shared ethnic heritage
Famous French sociologist Emile Durkheim used what type of data to examine government statistics on suicide from different countries?
a. primary data b. institutional data c. secondary data d. data scraping