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Who were the Scalawags?
Who were the Scalawags?
- Southern plantation owners
- African American political leaders in the South
- Southern whites who supported Reconstruction (correct)
- Northern migrants to the South after the Civil War
What triggered the Panic of 1873?
What triggered the Panic of 1873?
- Return to the gold standard
- Collapse of the banking firm Jay Cooke & Company (correct)
- Excessive speculation
- Overexpansion of railroads
What distinguished sharecropping from tenant farming?
What distinguished sharecropping from tenant farming?
- Tenant farming was exclusive to Northern states
- Sharecropping involved only African American laborers
- In sharecropping, the landowner provides the land and the tenant contributes labor and a share of the crops
- In tenant farming, the tenant pays rent for the land and may keep the entire harvest (correct)
What was the role of Carpetbaggers in the post-Civil War South?
What was the role of Carpetbaggers in the post-Civil War South?
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What did impeachment mean in the context of the president?
What did impeachment mean in the context of the president?
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