What is the best explanation for why tenancy became widespread in the South?
A. Southern farmers preferred not to own land.
B. A shortage of cash and credit made land ownership difficult.
C. It made cattle ranching more practical.
D. Blacks generally refused to leave the localities where they had lived all their lives.
Answer: B
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A. France would be allowed to maintain its control over the North American fur trade. B. France would cede its major North American possessions to Great Britain. C. France would keep Louisiana. D. Spain would be stripped of all land holdings in North America.
The Second Great Awakening originated in
A) Cane Ridge, Kentucky. B) Northampton, Massachusetts. C) Charleston, South Carolina. D) Buffalo, New York.
The Tredegar Iron Company of Richmond decided in 1847 to shift from white to slave labor to
A) destroy the potential power of organized white workers to strike. B) reduce the costs of labor and capital investments. C) offer slaves useful skills for their later lives as free blacks. D) expand the pool of slave laborers for industrial enterprises.
After the civil war between the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, where did the Umayyad form a separate state that lasted three centuries?
a. Iraq b. Spain c. India d. Persian Gulf states e. Arabia