In what ways were households and the family economy in the eighteenth century similar to the modern nuclear family? In what ways were they different?

What will be an ideal response?


The ideal answer should include:
1. New research that indicates that, like the modern nuclear family, large extended families living together was less common
2. Children leaving home in their early teens rather than upon age of legal maturity
3. Late marriages due to work as in the modern nuclear family
4. Limited access to land creating a division of labor between parents and children
5. Family gaining and consuming resources as a collective unit

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A) papacy B) Byzantine church C) monastic system D) the Byzantine empire

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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A) ?the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee. B) ?the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. C) ?Students for a Democratic Society. D) ?the Free Speech Movement. E) the National Farm Workers' Association.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

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