Once a decade, the U.S. Constitution requires that all residents in the nation be counted. To that end, each household completes a survey with the number of individuals who live there. This enumeration is more commonly known as a

A. canvass.
B. census.
C. sampling.
D. poll.


Answer: B

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a. 2,000 slave revolts or conspiracies to revolt. b. 500 slave revolts or conspiracies to revolt. c. 250 slave revolts or conspiracies to revolt. d. two or three dozen slave revolts or conspiracies to revolt.

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Following class-society theory, the key problem of living in a modern society is ________

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