Identify and Describe the Five Patterns of Adjustment to Divorce

question 4

Essay

Identify and describe the five patterns of adjustment to divorce.

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Definitions:

U.S. Senate

One of the two chambers of the United States Congress, it is comprised of senators from each state, regardless of population, serving staggered six-year terms, and has unique powers including treaty ratification and impeachment trials.

Hiram Revels

The first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi in 1870-1871 during the Reconstruction era.

Blanche K. Bruce

Blanche K. Bruce was an African American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi during the Reconstruction era, becoming the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate.

Election of 1876

A highly contested U.S. presidential election that led to the Compromise of 1877, effectively ending Reconstruction and withdrawing federal troops from the South.