Under the terms of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, Confederate states would not be readmitted to the Union until they had __________
A) elected at least ten black men to statewide office
B) paid a war indemnity
C) apologized for starting the war
D) ratified the Fourteenth Amendment
Answer: D
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a) Stock prices began to fall, and investors began to sell. b) Rioting workers caused major cities to shut down services. c) Tornadoes ripped through much of the Great Plains. d) The Great Depression came to a conclusive end.
Southern whites defended slavery after 1830 by arguing all of the following EXCEPT
A) it Christianized "heathen" Africans. B) it provided adequate food and shelter for slaves. C) it created an ordered society for slaves. D) it paid better than northern factories.
Leaders who appealed to the general populace were known as populares; those who supported the traditional role of the Senate were known as ________
Fill in the blank with correct word.
Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin changed the industry of the South in which way?
a. It created greater competition between Southern cotton farmers. b. It decreased the dependence on slave labor in cotton farming. c. It led to more land in the South being dedicated to cotton farming. d. It created a new source of cheap alcohol.