The Return on the Money Risked on a Share of Stock

question 175

Multiple Choice

The return on the money risked on a share of stock is called

• A) interest.
• B) dividends.
• C) retained earnings.
• D) capital gains.

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Definitions:

Radical Reconstruction

The period after the American Civil War when the federal government took extensive measures to reintegrate and rebuild the Southern states, and to grant rights to freed slaves.

Interracial Governments

Governmental bodies or systems that include members of different racial or ethnic groups, particularly within contexts of diversity and inclusion.

Carpetbaggers

Derisive term for northern emigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South.

Scalawags

A derogatory term used during the Reconstruction era to describe southern whites who supported the Republican Party's reconstruction policies.