Which of the Following Was Not One of the Reasons

question 8

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not one of the reasons why only a small proportion of blacks were able to own farms by the end of Reconstruction?

• A) Most blacks lacked the capital to buy the land and equipment.
• B) White southerners did not want to sell their land to blacks.
• C) Southern industrialists needed laborers to work in their new urban factories.
• D) Neither Congress nor the states imposed large-scale land reform.
• E) Southern planters needed a source of cheap labor to work on their plantations.

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Definitions:

Automatic Process

Cognitive processes that occur with minimal conscious effort, often unconsciously and quickly.

Mental Filtering

A cognitive bias where an individual focuses on a single negative aspect of a situation, ignoring the positive aspects or the bigger picture.

Conscious Awareness

A state in which one is mentally alert and fully aware of their thoughts, feelings, and surroundings.

Feature Integration Theory

A proposal that perception of familiar stimuli occurs in two stages. The first (automatic) stage involves the perception of object features. The second (attentional) stage involves the integration and unification of those features.