During Reconstruction, poor blacks and poor whites in the South
A) largely owned their own farmland.
B) found economic independence through the tenant farming system.
C) often became sharecroppers or tenant farmers.
D) came together in harmony.
Answer: C
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Which of the following was a common thread in the varied state constitutions adopted during the revolution?
A) Fearing weak executives, drafters gave much power to governors. B) They eliminated property qualifications for voting and holding office. C) Drafters expanded the strength of legislatures and made them more responsive to popular will. D) They downplayed the separation of the branches of government.
Which of the following was, perhaps, the greatest Native American victory over the United States Army?
A) Battle of Wounded Knee B) Battle of Sand Creek C) Custer's Last Stand D) Fetterman Massacre E) the "Trail of Tears"
The conflict that paralyzed the Estates General in May 1789 was
a. the continuing conflict between the crown and the aristocracy. b. a new conflict between the Third Estate and the other two privileged Estates. c. the general uprising of the peasantry to abolish residual feature of serfdom and manorialism d. tension between the bourgeois members of the Estates General and the sans-culottes. e. none of the above
Why was life better for women in Rome than in Greece?
What will be an ideal response?