Explain why the South failed to benefit from the industrialization and economic growth and expansion that characterized the rest of America in the late nineteenth century
What will be an ideal response?
The South relied heavily on northern investment capital; therefore, it remained a "colonial" economy exporting raw materials and importing more expensive finished goods. White supremacist racial policies depressed wages and restricted the tax base. Sharecropping, reliance on a single crop, and no capital for investment doomed the South to slow economic growth.
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Which New Deal work relief program, which eventually employed one-fifth of the workforce during the Great Depression, was an unemployed worker referring to when he said that "I gave the best part of my life to the American country, and I spent every cent I made here. They owe it to me to take care of me"?
A) the Civil Works Administration (CWA)
B) the Public Works Administration (PWA)
C) the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
D) the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Which choice best describes the origins of the Swahili language?
a. Bantu-Yoruba mix b. Arabic-Berber mix c. Arabic-Bantu mix d. Yoruba-Arabic mix e. Berber-Bantu mix
Why did England pass the Coercive Acts?
What will be an ideal response?
Greece's economic prosperity during the sixth and fifth centuries B.C.E. led to which of the following?
A. the ascendency of certain powerful merchants to noble status B. a flourishing of the arts and sciences C. the consolidation of Greece's city-states into one kingdom D. a widening gap between the rich and poor of Greek society