What is true about southern economic redevelopment?
A. One success of the postwar South was in laying as much railroad track as the rest of the nation combined.
B. Republican-dominated Reconstruction governments sought to encourage southern industry.
C. Unlike the North, southern governments became notorious for corruption, which explains the skyrocketing public debt.
D. Northerners known as "scalawags" came south to exploit the South's economic vulnerability.
Answer: B
You might also like to view...
How did Germany fill the labor shortage in the war economy during the first half of World War II?
A) exploiting labor in conquered lands B) conscripting women for industrial labor C) lengthening working hours D) ending all public holidays
What new text from c. 900 - 600 B.C.E. introduced the idea of transmigration of the soul?
a. Artha Veda. b. Ramayana. c. Mahabharata. d. Bhagavad Gita. e. Upanishad.
Francisco Menendez founded North America’s first free black town, __________
a) Fort Mose b) Fort Sumter c) Fort Augustine d) Fort Wilderness
President Sukarno of Indonesia
A. was actually from Sri Lanka and arrived in the Dutch East Indies only in 1941. B. was a boring speaker, but was supported because of fear of his konfrontasi gangs. C. used economic aid from China and the Soviet Union to counter Western influence, and used domestic Indonesian Communists to counter domestic Muslim opponents. D. was pro-Western in both his domestic and foreign policies. E. was radically pro-Muslim.