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Question 1

Unlike the more vulnerable democratic West, the nations of Southeast Asia were unaffected by the world financial crisis of 1997, primarily because of their more authoritarian political institutions.
 
  a. True
  b. False
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Question 2

Which statement best describes the origins of sharecropping?
 
  a. The federal government was unwilling to help the freed people in any way, so they had no alternative but to go into sharecropping.
  b. Most former slaves preferred wage labor, but terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan forced them to accept sharecropping.
  c. The freed people recognized that under sharecropping they could earn more money than through wage labor, if they worked harder.
  d. Many whites with large landholdings lacked the capital to hire farm workers, so it was easier to pay workers in kind rather than in cash.



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V@ndy87

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Reply 2 on: Sep 11, 2019
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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