Which of the following was not one of the reasons why only a small proportion of blacks were able to own farms by the end of Reconstruction?
A) Most blacks lacked the capital to buy the land and equipment.
B) White southerners did not want to sell their land to blacks.
C) Southern industrialists needed laborers to work in their new urban factories.
D) Neither Congress nor the states imposed large-scale land reform.
E) Southern planters needed a source of cheap labor to work on their plantations.
C
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A) Colonial Council B) Colonial Trade Organization C) Lords of America D) Lords of Trade
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