A persistent rumor spread through the South in 1865 and 1866 that the federal government would provide freedpeople with
a. ten dollars for every year they had been slaves.
b. forty acres of land and a mule.
c. free transportation to northern industrial centers.
d. their own territory in the Southwest.
b. forty acres of land and a mule.
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A. west to east. B. east to west. C. north to south. D. south to north. E. west to north.
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A) ?Missouri B) ?Delaware C) ?Maryland D) ?Kentucky E) ?None of these are correct