How did southern textile mill owners in the Piedmont region of South Carolina and Georgia keep control over their poor white workforce?
A) They threatened to hire black workers.
B) They offered their workers a living wage.
C) They gave their workers generous old-age pensions.
D) They hired armed guards to patrol their workers’ neighborhoods.
Answer: A
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White southern Republicans were referred to as __________ by their detractors
A) scalawags B) carpetbaggers C) Yankees D) black birds
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