The biggest contributor to lower farm prices after the Civil War was
a. shrinking overseas markets.
b. overproduction.
c. a lack of transportation.
d. excessive food imports.
ANSWER: b
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a. the states had adopted Black Codes that limited the civil rights of freed slaves. b. the states had been readmitted without consultation with Congress. c. many former Confederates were elected to high political office in those states. d. it feared that the restored South would be stronger than ever in national politics. e. they feared that the South would just secede again if it didn't get its way.
William the Conqueror launched an invasion of England in 1066 from which former Scandinavian settlement?
a. Ireland. b. Normandy. c. The Danube Valley. d. Russia. e. Germany.
In the last quarter of the fifteenth century, what maritime power dominated trade in the southern seas?
A. Portugal B. No single maritime power dominated. C. the Ottoman empire D. Spain
In 1925, when the black physician __________ moved into a white Detroit neighborhood, a mob attacked his home
A) Clarence Darrow B) Charles Houston C) Buck Franklin D) Ossian Sweet