It was the Louisiana purchase.
Answer:
Carpetbaggers, opportunists from the north, and scalawags swindled people out of their property, exploited the poor, illiterate, and naive former slaves, giving them false promises of "forty acres and a mule" and manipulating them for their own political purposes.
Answer: corporate monopolies
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Madagascar
The largest number of islands of Africa are found in the Indian Ocean, with the sovereign island nations of Comoros, Seychelles, Mauritius and Madagascar located off the southeastern seaboard of Africa being the most notable.