One major problem with the Homestead Act was that
a. the government continued to try to maximize its revenue from public lands.
b. 160 acres were inadequate for productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains.
c. midwestern farmers had to give up raising livestock because of stiff competition with the West.
d. most homesteaders knew little or nothing about farming in the West.
e. it took several years to earn a profit from farming a homestead.
b
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a. blacks as equal citizens. b. southerners and northerners working together. c. radicalism within the rural reform movement. d. a heroic Ku Klux Klan.
Which of these impeded Roman technological innovation?
A) low levels of literacy B) a cheap labor source C) isolation from other intellectual traditions D) the influence of the plebeians
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A) military B) progressive political C) territorial D) economic
__________ enunciated the doctrine of "Socialism in one country."
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).