Which of the following statements about the Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is MOST accurate?
a. The act distributed public lands exclusively to freedpeople.
b. Black families gained the most land through the act in states with the largest black populations.
c. Although the act opened lands to both whites and blacks, it was blacks who benefitted the most.
d. Thanks in part to the act, roughly 6% of all freed families owned their own land by the mid-1870s.
d. Thanks in part to the act, roughly 6% of all freed families owned their own land by the mid-1870s.
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The chinampas
A. were agricultural plots built on swampy islands. B. were built to maintain industrial production. C. provided farmers with a means of growing waterfowl for export to South America. D. were to be found only in the semi-arid areas of northern Mesoamerica. E. were part of Inka religious culture.
Whose plan to increase wages and improve working conditions was so successful at increasing control over a stable labor force that it was copied by other business leaders?
a) Henry Ford b) Mary Harris Jones c) Elizabeth Gurley Flynn d) William D. Haywood
As the profitability of slavery declined, Europeans began to shift their investments from sugarcane and slaves to newly emerging manufacturing industries.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)