Even Though Reliable Data Is Lacking,the Beard-Hacker Thesis Maintains That

question 44

Multiple Choice

Even though reliable data is lacking,the Beard-Hacker Thesis maintains that the Civil War ?(1861-1865)

• A) was more costly to the South than to the North.
• B) ended Southern prosperity through the abolition of slavery.
• C) increased immigration to the U.S.
• D) sped up the industrialization of the U.S.

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Definitions:

Interaction Effect

In statistics, the effect that exists when two or more variables combine to affect the outcome of a dependent variable in a way that cannot be simply added.

Main Effect

In experimental design, a main effect is the direct impact of an individual independent variable on a dependent variable, ignoring the effects of other variables.

Simple Effect

The effect of one factor at a specific level of another factor in a factorial design experiment.

Factorial Research

A methodological approach in experiments where researchers study the effects of two or more independent variables across multiple levels.