A dramatic increase in childbearing among slaves in Virginia around the 1750s is attributed to __________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Answer: the rise of large plantations where slaves were more likely to find partners
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What will be an ideal response?
Why did people flee farms in the early 1900s?
A) Pests destroyed most crops across the South, and farmers fled debt. B) People were attracted to the more modern, cosmopolitan life of the city and suburbs. C) Drought destroyed most crops across the Midwest, and farmers fled debt. D) Whites came to associate farming with Mexicans and African Americans. E) New technology made tenant farming unnecessary and obsolete.
The Bantu based their society on the idea of the
a. nuclear family. b. fictive ancestor. c. survival of the fittest. d. elected monarch.
Why was the official Carolingian marriage policy not entirely positive for women?
A. They lost their legal rights during the transition. B. They gained greater dignity. C. Their labor as household manager and child bearer greatly increased. D. They were forced to take multiple husbands.