Place yourself in the role of a southern white farmer in the period 1865-1877. Describe your reaction to the major events of Reconstruction in those years
What will be an ideal response?
Southern white farmers suffered a loss in status and experienced frustration and fear. The disruption of the southern economy adversely affected their livelihoods, and many landowners lost their land and were forced into sharecropping. In many ways, their condition paralleled that of the freedmen, but white farmers continued to identify with white leadership in the South on the basis of race, not with the common economic condition they shared with poor African Americans.
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China's civil war can be characterized as ________
A) long and bloody B) short and uneventful C) short but extremely fierce D) long but essentially a cold war
In the early 19th century, the "Burned-Over District" referred to an area of:
A) Pennsylvania. B) Massachusetts. C) New York. D) Virginia.
The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was
a. proposed by Timothy Dwight Weld. b. proposed by John Quincy Adams. c. advocated by Frederick Douglass. d. suggested by political leaders of the African nation of Liberia. e. supported by the black leader Martin Delaney.
In a study done by Plant et al. (2000), participants were shown pictures of men and women with ambiguous emotional expressions (a blend between sadness and anger) and told to rate which emotion was being expressed. The participants rated men’s blends as significantly angrier than women’s and women’s blends as significantly sadder than men’s. What can you infer about gender stereotypes and emotional expression based on this finding? What is an implication of this finding?
What will be an ideal response?