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Which best describes the work context of Colonial America?
 
  a) Sex was the central construct in the divisionof labor, but the line between men's (boys') and women's (girls') work may have shifted during planting and harvesting.
   b) Industrialization was taking hold, moving people from the farms to the cities.
   c) Men worked at jobs away from home, while women were the caretakers.
   d) For most of the year both men and women did the physical agricultural work.
   e) Slaves and immigrants generally did the physical agricultural work.

Question 2

Until recent legal reforms were enacted, the legal system used the _______ rule to justify nonintervention in wife-abuse cases.
 
  a. privacy
  b. live and let live
  c. curtain
  d. silence



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Answer to Question 1

Props to you, cheers.

Answer to Question 2

c



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