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clmills979

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In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B. Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?
 
  A) to remove the remaining federal troops from the South.
  B) to allow Democrats to take over the last of the Republican Reconstruction governments.
  C) that the federal government help pay off the Confederate war debt.
  D) to award half of all federal patronage to southern Democrats.
  E) to provide federal aid for building factories and urban recreation areas throughout the South.

Question 2

Under the sharecropping system, poor farmers would
 
  A) rent land from large landowners in exchange for half the crop produced on the land.
  B) work as wage laborers on the farms of large landowners.
  C) do handiwork on large farms in exchange food.
  D) receive a share of the crop from a large farm in an early version of a welfare system.
  E) pool their land and shared in whatever crops they produced.



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