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:

Electrostatic Charges

Voltage developed by an excess or lack of electrons on an object.

Conductors

Materials that allow the flow of electrical current with minimal resistance, such as metals, due to their ability to freely move electrons.

Insulators

Materials that resist electrical current, used to protect, separate, or support conductors in an electrical system.

Static Charges

Electric charges that accumulate on an object's surface without an immediate opportunity to equalize through a circuit or ground.