What made the pine barren people so controversial in the Old South?
A) ?They formed communities of antislavery activists, hiring only white laborers.
B) ?As squatters who lived in ramshackle houses, they were cited by northerners as proof that slavery degraded poor whites.
C) ?They refused to work to support themselves, and instead hunted, gathered and sometimes stole from elite plantations.
D) ?Their poverty was an embarrassment to the southern planter elite.
E) ?All of these choices
C
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Eli Whitney actually became wealthy developing the
A) mechanical cotton picker. B) mechanical cotton thresher. C) mechanical cotton spinner. D) idea for interchangeable parts, as well as manufacturing rifles with these parts for the U.S. government.
As a result of the Hepburn Act, __________________.
A. the government gained sufficient power to stop all railroad abuses B. the government gained the power to regulate working hours in the railroad industry C. workers in the railroad industry received higher wages and the promise of automatic cost-of-living increases D. the ICC gained more authority to fix railroad rates, but the courts could still overturn rate decisions
For women, the transition from being a slave to being free often meant
A) a reversal of former gender roles. B) more work. C) the same hard work in both conditions. D) a shift from fieldwork to domestic chores.
Which of the following groups would be least likely to belong to the New Deal coalition?
a. Members of the urban working class b. Wealthy businesspeople c. African Americans in northern cities d. Members of organized labor