“The South’s adoption of extreme racism was due not so much to a conversion, but to a relaxation of the opposition. All the elements of fear, jealousy, proscription, hatred and fanaticism had long been present, as they were present in various degrees of intensity in any society. What enabled them to rise to dominence was not so much cleverness or ingenuity as it was a general weakening and discrediting of the numerous forces that had hitherto kept them in check.”

– from C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow

What conclusion can be drawn from this text?

A) Fighting for civil rights is what caused segregation in the first place.

B) Opposition itself is what helped segregation to flourish in all parts of the country.

C) Society itself encouraged and accepted segregation in all parts of the United States.

Eliminate

D) Segregation was a natural progress of any nation to wanting to have full civil rights.

1.) In a poll to estimate presidential popularity, each person in a random sample of 1,000 voters was asked to agree with one of the following statements: 1. The President is doing a good job. 2. The President is doing a poor job. 3. I have no opinion.A total of 560 respondents selected the first statement, indicating they thought the President was doing a good job.A. Construct a 95 percent confidence interval for the proportion of respondents who feel the President is doing a good job. B. Based on your interval in part (a), is it reasonable to conclude that a majority (more than half) of the population believes the President is doing a good job?2.) The Tennessee Tourism Institute (TTI) plans to sample information center visitors entering the state to learn the fraction of visitors who plan to camp in the state. Current estimates are that 35 percent of visitors are campers. How large a sample would you take to estimate at a 95 percent confidence level the population proportion with an allowable error of 2 percent?