Slave families: a. were rare because there were too few female slaves. b. were more common in the west indies, where living conditions favored their formation and survival. c. avoided naming children for family members because children so often were sold, and it was better not to build strong kinship ties. d. were headed by women more frequently than were white families. e. usually were able to stay together because most slaveowners were paternalistic.

How can changes in technology or consumer demand make it difficult for people to get jobs? by changing the number or kind of jobs available by making it possible for some people to work fewer hours by making it difficult for people to buy what they want by creating a demand for things that are not available

“dear sir: it is with great reluctance, i trouble you on a subject, which does not fall within your province; but it is a subject that occasions me more distress, than i have felt, since the commencement of the war; and which loudly demands the most zealous exertions of every person of weight and authority, who is interested in the success of our affairs. i mean the present dreadful situation of the army for want of provisions, and the miserable prospects before us, with respect to futurity. it is more alarming than you will probably conceive, for, to form a just idea, it were necessary to be on the spot. for some days past, there has been little less, than a famine in camp. a part of the army has been a week, without any kind of flesh, and the rest for three or four days. naked and starving as they are, we cannot enough admire the incomparable patience and fidelity of the soldiery, that they have not been ere this excited by their sufferings, to a general mutiny or dispersion. strong symptoms, however, discontent have appeared in particular instances; and nothing but the most acitive efforts every where can long avert so shocking a catastrophe.” what’s the central idea?

Which common characteristic of renaissance buildings does this image show