Why did the meiji government have to get rid of the samurai class in order to modernise/industrialise?

Although the women's rights movement had a large impact, no countries currently provide women with: o a. the right to hold the highest offices of government. o b. fair access to the court system. o c. equal representation in the government o d. the right to leave an unhappy or abusive marriage.

What is one way scalawags were significant during the reconstruction in the south?

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is