In the South, the crop-lien system and the burdensome credit system
A. forced interest rates up as high as 20 or 30 percent.
B. led to crop diversification.
C. encouraged reliance on planting cash crops.
D. disappeared during Reconstruction.
E. was generally imposed on blacks, but not white farmers.
Answer: C
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A. relative peace and stability had prevailed during the early years of Qing rule. B. new crops had been introduced from the New World. C. introduction of the development of faster growing Southeast Asian rice into China. D. the political stability of China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. E. the central government's termination of legal abortions.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false