1. Explain who Dred Scott was. Consider the following questions while answering:
• Why was there a court case about him?
• What was his hope?

2. Answer the following questions about the Dred Scott decision of 1857.
• How did the decision change the status of African Americans?

3. Imagine and describe how African Americans might have felt about themselves and their future after the Dred Scott decision.

Census data is an example of: public information. private behavior. private information. public behavior.

Asociologist wants to study a culture that occurs in some women’s prisons: “state families,” in which individual prisoners take on certain roles within a group of like-minded prisoners. there is previous evidence that younger prisoners will use older inmates who play the roles of grandparents as a resource before they will turn to staff for and advice. the lieutenant in charge of a dorm of long-term prisoners offers to gather volunteers to speak to the researcher and also offers to vouch for the integrity of the researcher. the use of this staff is: a valid use of a statistical technique referred to “snowball sampling” wherein the inclusion of the first subject leads to the recruitment of another one subject.a useful tactic in obtaining a sample of prisoners who both meet the criteria and who will be honest with the researcher.wrong and is prohibited; subject selection needs to be free from intervention by prison authorities or prisoners.acceptable only when the researcher’s irb grants a special waiver.

What effect did increased automobile production have on other industries