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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