The Chinese civil service examination system
a. included a quota system to insure that over one-half of those who took it were peasants.
b. insured that those passing all levels of the exams would receive life-long pensions.
c. was designed to keep the "scholar-gentry" from taking the advanced examinations.
d. was no longer used after the early 600s.
e. was unable to solve the problem of officials using their positions to help their relatives.
e
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To many colonial settlers in North America,
a. native peoples were a useful source of labor. b. Native Americans were hospitable and useful collaborators in obtaining food and allies. c. Native American states created useful buffer zones. d. Native Americans were thought to be easily converted to Christianity and included as a part of colonial society.
According to Confucian moralists, a girl's education should reflect
a. total obedience and loyalty to parental authority. b. a deep understanding of nature and religion. c. her own personality and family aspirations. d. a complete understanding of her own personal destiny.
The 1876 image Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket shows that the ruthless character of the white supremacy movement, which was typical of the Mississippi Plan used to intimidate black voters, was the result of the __________
A) expiration of the Freedmen's Bureau B) lack of concern from Republican governors in Southern states C) Fifteenth Amendment D) reduction of federal troops in the South
The widespread enactment of Jim Crow laws that disfranchised and segregated African Americans began
A) during World War I. B) in the 1920s. C) in the 1890s. D) during Reconstruction.