Most of the land set aside by the Southern Homestead Act was eventually acquired by __________

A) poor southern white people
B) former slaves
C) timber companies
D) northern investors


Answer: C

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a. Valeriano Weyler. b. Emilio Aguinaldo. c. Dupuy de Lóme. d. Pasqual de Cervera. e. Ramon Macapagal.

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What two kinds of migration did Europeans engage in during the 19th century—and why?

What will be an ideal response?

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The Articles of Confederation could not be amended until all thirteen state legislatures approved.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which was soon made into a film, sympathetically portrayed the plight of __________

A) Oklahoma Dust Bowl migrants B) unemployed Detroit factory workers C) new immigrants in New York City D) poor black farmers in Georgia

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