14. read the following sentence from the textbook that expresses a main idea about china's official policies. then choose the statement that offers evidence that supports that main idea.

democratic governments continue to raise concerns over chinese human rights.

a. as china's economy has grown, so have political freedoms for it's citizens.
b. capital punishment is the penalty for a long list of crimes in china.
c. china has adopted numerous economic reforms that have benefited individual citizens.
d. the main role of the communist party in china is to govern, not to mobilize citizens to vote.

missouri compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery

answer: i looked it up

explanation: in 1955 in montgomery, alabama, a girl refused to give up her seat on a public bus. the girl was black, and the passenger looking to take her seat was white. this is a familiar tale, but it's not about rosa parks. the girl in the story is a 15-year-old high school student named claudette colvin, and this act of defiance occurred nine months before rosa parks did the same thing. colvin was arrested, and her case is what led to the u.s. supreme court's order for the desegregation of alabama's bus system. so, why don't we know colvin's name? "later i had a child born out of wedlock; i became pregnant when i was 16," colvin says. "and i didn't fit the image either, of, you know, someone they would want to show off.