The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Former colonies threw off many aspects of colonial rule, but they have kept the essential elements of the state. New states in former colonies were fundamentally different than the experiences of older states in that <em>the new states were trying to develop state institutions with not as much resources than previous states did and in less time.</em>
For instance, the first example was the House of Burgesses in the colony of Virginia. It was the first intent of Virginians to have their own legislative body to create its own laws, trying to get some independence from the British monarchy.
Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a Black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. Those who attempted to defy Jim Crow laws often faced arrest, fines, jail sentences, violence and death.
Answer:
Heritable traits that enhance survival will become progressively more common in succeeding generations.
Explanation:
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution developed many ideas; among them we find the "Adaptation", which describes just what the exercise explains: the "inescapable conclusion" that individuals in a population will have unequal reproductive success, so that those whose traits best enable them to survive will leave more offspring. In other words, among a species, the individuals who have the best heritable traits will be able to have more offspring, and, therefore, those traits will be more and more common in the following generations.
