Why Did the United States Adopt the Policy of Hypodescent?​

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Multiple Choice

Why did the United States adopt the policy of hypodescent?​

• A)​By conflating the cultural and biological, the United States used this policy historically to discriminate.
• B)​This policy was primarily in place as a way to encourage families to produce more children across perceived racial lines.
• C)​Primarily applied to limit economic transactions across racial groups, it, instead, served to create a caste system in the United States.
• D)​Hypodescent was used during the epoch of slavery as a way to prevent social and reproductive interaction between the races.

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Definitions:

Rods and Cones

Photoreceptor cells in the retina responsible for vision in low light (rods) and color vision and detail (cones).

Bipolar Cells

Bipolar cells are a type of retinal neuron that transmit signals from the photoreceptors (cones and rods) to ganglion cells, which then transmit visual information to the brain.

Ganglion Cells

Neurons located in the retina that receive visual information from photoreceptors and transmit it to the brain.

Neural Signals

Electrical or chemical signals transmitted by neurons to communicate with each other or to muscles or glands.