Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Graduation rates at community colleges are higher than those at four year universities.
2. The percentage of Americans with a college degree has tripled since 1970.
3. Only about half of Americans believe that today’s youth are likely to have a better life than their parents.
4. As late as 1900 a 16 year old black male was twice as likely to be in the labor force as he was to be in school.
1. False
2. True
3. True
4. True
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a. gentry b. "middle peasants" c. poor peasants d. rich peasants
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a. learning the native language of the people b. the deculturation of a people c. infanticide d. assimilation of the colonizers to the native culture
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A. an individual's yearly salary B. wages, tips, and other compensation C. household earnings over a set period of time D. the value of everything a person owns, minus the value of everything he or she owes