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robinn137

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Which of the following statements about the slave family in the U.S. is most accurate?
 a. Slave owners preferred slaves who lived in intact families.
  b. In most two-parent slave families, the parents lived on different plantations.
  c. The father was white in about 75 percent of the households headed by single slave mothers.
  d. About half of children under 15 years of age were sold away from their families.

Question 2

Paul David examined _______________ as an example of path dependence.
 a. Microsoft's Windows operating system
  b. the VHS format
  c. the QWERTY keyboard
  d. hydroelectric power generators



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Answer to Question 1

a. Slave owners preferred slaves who lived in intact families.

Answer to Question 2

c. the QWERTY keyboard



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