All of the Following Statements Are True of the Work

question 24

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements are true of the work done by southern slaves EXCEPT:

• A) by 1860, some 200,000 worked in factories.
• B) slaves sometimes were allowed to supervise other laborers, including white workers.
• C) masters rented out slaves to do a variety of jobs.
• D) the federal government used slaves to build forts and other public buildings in the South.
• E) slaves worked exclusively as agricultural field hands and house servants.

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The total number of autonomous values or numbers that can be ascribed to a statistical distribution.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that suggests there is no statistical significance in a set of given observations, serving as the default assumption until evidence indicates otherwise.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a population's values around the mean.

F-tests

F-tests are a class of statistical tests that compare the variances between groups to ascertain whether the means are significantly different, often based on F distribution.