The View That Laws Are Set Up to Assist Those

question 36

Multiple Choice

The view that laws are set up to assist those who are in positions of power is most consistent with the

• A)functionalist perspective.
• B)conflict perspective.
• C)interactionist perspective.
• D)feminist perspective.

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Definitions:

Plantation Owners

Individuals or corporations who owned large agricultural estates typically worked by enslaved people or laborers.

Wade-Davis Bill

A 1864 proposal for the Reconstruction of the South written by Radical Republicans Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis, which required a majority of a former Confederate state's white males to swear allegiance to the Union before restoration.

Right to Vote

A civil right that allows individuals of a democratic society to participate in the election of government officials and in referendum questions, fundamental to the democratic process.