The Fourteenth Amendment

question 55

Multiple Choice

The Fourteenth Amendment

• A) passed despite the opposition of Charles Sumner.
• B) specifically defined suffrage as one of the civil rights to which freedpeople were entitled.
• C) represented a compromise between the moderate and conservative positions on race.
• D) marked the most important change in the U.S. Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
• E) placed into the U.S. Constitution an essential holding of the Dred Scott decision.

Understand the central limit theorem and its relevance to the shape of distributions in large samples.

Distinguish between point estimates and actual population parameters in the context of statistical inference.

Evaluate the significance of the confidence level and its impact on the interpretation of confidence intervals.

Apply statistical methods to compare means and proportions between two populations or samples.

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