When sharecropping first originated:
A. It allowed African Americans to buy land on credit
B. It was forced on African Americans by ruthless landowners
C. It gave African Americans freedom from daily supervision by white landowners or overseers
D. It was a humanitarian system of poverty relief
Answer: C
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a. Leaders commanded war-bands. b. Plunder was their main source of revenue. c. Gradual conversion to Christianity. d. Eventual transition to becoming farmers and traders. e. All of the above.
What was the primary solution to the realization that cities could hardly survive, let alone grow, without improved transportation?
A. electric streetcars B. one-way streets C. the cable car D. the horse-drawn trolley
In 1786, Alexander Hamilton found an important ally in his push for a stronger central government in
A. George Washington. B. James Madison. C. Thomas Jefferson. D. Thomas Paine. E. Benjamin Franklin.
Investment banking experienced great growth in the 1880s and thereafter, mainly because:
a. J.P. Morgan was able to convince hundreds of business investors to back his merger corporations b. entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie earned the capital necessary to create economic conglomerates c. philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie were giving away so much money d. the American economy was growing due to the expansion of industries like steel and railroads