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Put this in your pipe and Shmoop it. Which words could fill in the blank so that
the sentence below makes sense?
In the early nineteenth century, the United States was an overwhelmingly rural society,
and the prevailing republican ideology of the time reflected the country's blank orientation.
And here are the potential answers...
Don't be thrown off by the tricky social studies terms.
The stuff about "republican ideology" only comes into play after we learn about the United
States as a rural society…
…so the missing word should have something to do with farming in the countryside.
“Equitable” describes when everybody gets an evenly sized piece of the proverbial pie.
It’s nice when this happens...
..but it has nothing to with farming, so it’s a no-go.
“Theocratic” describes a government run by a religion…
…and “tyrannical” describes a government ruled by a cruel person with absolute power.
Again, these words have nothing to do with farming, so they get the boot.
“Urban” is definitely wrong because it refers to cities and towns, which is the opposite
of what we’re looking for. Since "agrarian" is another way of saying
rural, (A) is the correct answer.
A for “Agriculture is weird sometimes.”