Just two questions : “education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men,—the balance wheel of the social machinery. i do not here mean that it so elevates the moral nature as to make men disdain and abhor the oppression of the fellow men. the idea pertains to another of its attributes. but i mean that it gives each man the independence and the means by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. it does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich : it prevents being poor.” —horace man, twelfth annual

social status of early civilizations was based primarily on economic power.- true ( first choice)

was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all americans. the era has had a lasting impact on united states society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism. in the south violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled southern white democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the south