During Reconstruction,southern Cities

question 78

Multiple Choice

During Reconstruction,southern cities:

• A) enjoyed newfound prosperity as merchants traded more frequently with the North.
• B) were as poverty-stricken as rural southern areas.
• C) benefited from the building of a transcontinental railroad from Washington,D.C.,to Los Angeles.
• D) benefited as rice and tobacco production markedly grew.
• E) experienced major population losses as blacks trekked north in the Great Migration.

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