The Vietnam War faced mass opposition for several reasons inlcuding:
1) Unfair draft practices- Many citizens who were affluent and had connections were able to avoid being drafted by the US military. This resulted in a majority of the soldiers being individuals from lower-middle class socioeconomic groups. Many citizens felt that this was unfair, an dubbed Vietnam a rich man's fought that happened to be fought by the poor.
2) Monetary cost- The Vietnam War cost America billions of dollars over the course of the 2 decades of their involvement in trying to keep South Vietnam out of the control of the Soviet Union/communism.
3) Casualties- The US military suffered over 50,000 deaths due to this war. Americans felt that this was unacceptable.
Most of the women polled during research for The Feminine Mystique were homemakers - b.
The reason why the polled women in this case were homemakers and weren't professionals or college students was due to the specificity of the sample and the times in which this research was conducted.
Many slaves were brought to Brazil due to the sugar economy,
which is the primary source of income in Brazil. They also used slaves when the
Portuguese colonizers had discovered gold and diamond deposits in Brazil. Because
of this, Portugal had sent slaves to work on the fields and mines under the Portuguese
colony.
