Question

1. choose the best answer. enslvers contradicted their own arguments that enslaved people were unintelligent by __. privately paying enslaved people to invent ignoring enslaved peoples innovations purchasing patents of enslaved peoples inventions taking credit for enslaved peoples inventions 13. choose the best answer. the first african american woman to sign her full name on her patent application was __, who was granted a patent in 1885 for the folding bed. judy reed jan ernst matzeliger sarah boone sarah goode

Explanation:

1. Enslvers who claimed enslaved people were unintelligent yet took credit for their inventions showed a contradiction in their stance. Taking credit implies recognition of the intelligence behind the inventions while their public - facing argument was the opposite.
2. Sarah Goode was the first African - American woman to sign her full name on a patent application in 1885 for a folding bed. She was an entrepreneur and her patent was for an improvement to a folding bed.

Answer:

1. taking credit for enslaved people's inventions
2. Sarah Goode