(03.03 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”There are several circumstances in the situation, employments, and duties of women, in America, which require a peculiar mode of education. The early marriages of our women, by contracting the time allowed for education, renders it necessary to contract its plan, and to confine it chiefly to the more useful branches of literature. The state of property, in America, renders it necessary for the greatest part of our citizens to employ themselves, in different occupations, for the advancement of their fortunes. This cannot be done without the assistance of the female members of the community. They must be the stewards, and guardians of their husbands’ property. That education, therefore, will be most proper for our women which teaches them to discharge the duties of those offices with the most success and reputation. principal share of the instruction of children naturally devolves upon the women. It becomes us therefore to prepare them by a suitable education, for the discharge of this most important duty of mothers. The equal share that every citizen has in the liberty, and the possible share he may have in the government, of our country, make it necessary that our ladies should be qualified to a certain degree by a peculiar and suitable education, to concur in instructing their sons in the principles of liberty and government.” Source: Benjamin Rush, from Thoughts upon Female Education, 1787According to this excerpt, why was the education of women so critical to America?

(04.05 MC)Question refers to the excerpt below.”But if slaves were allowed to redeem themselves progressively, by purchasing one day of the week after another, as they can in the Spanish colonies, habits of industry would be gradually formed, and enterprise would be stimulated, by their successful efforts to acquire a little property. And if they afterward worked better as free laborers than they now do as slaves, it would surely benefit their masters as well as themselves…But the slave holders try to stop all the efforts of benevolence, by vociferous complaints about infringing upon their property; and justice is so subordinate to self-interest, that the unrighteous claim is silently allowed, and even openly supported, by those who ought to blush for themselves, as Christians and as republicans.”Source: Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans called African, 1833In this excerpt, Child chides slave owners for

(01.02 MC)Use the following excerpts to answer the question below.”Probably never before, or since, has a mighty emperor…ordered his conquests to cease until it was decided if they were just.”Source: Lewis Hanke, Colonial Latin America historian”By any standards, the debate is one of the most extraordinary events in Western political history: A country engaged in conquest is accused of doing so unjustly.”Source: Robert McAfee Brown, religion and ethics scholarWhich of the following is a true statement about these two quotes?

(03.07 HC) Use the graph to answer the question that follows.Assume that the economy is in a short-run equilibrium as shown on the accompanying graph. Without government intervention, what adjustment over time can be expected?

(04.03 LC)What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the 19th century?

(02.03 MC) Which of the following would explain an increase in the natural rate of unemployment?

(02.03 MC)This question refers to the following excerpt.”he Southwest’s people were not strangers to one another at all. Neither distance nor language formed a barrier against communication. People in their settled adobe villages had had centuries to build relationships and customs, of commerce, alliance, peace, and war … If anything, the Spanish invasion intensified Native connections with one another.”Source: Edward Countryman, The Pueblo Revolt, online essay for The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American HistoryWhich of the following is a true statement, as reflected in the excerpt?

(02.03 MC) Which of the following individuals is considered “cyclically” unemployed by economists?

  (04.07 MC) Use the graph to answer the question that follows. The graph shows a change in an economy after the government’s decision to provide tax benefits to businesses in an effort to increase investment. What is the new point of equilibrium in the economy’s loanable funds market?

(04.03 MC)Question refers to the image below.© Norton 2015Which of the following descriptions best defines the Cult of Domesticity?