France was the country that sold the United States the Louisiana territory, so they could have just said "no you can't have our land."
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<em>C. ranch land to businesses and took money and gifts from them.
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The Republican Party in the South comprised three groups after the Civil War, and white Democratic Southerners referred to two with derogatory terms. "Scalawags" were white Southerners who supported the Republican party, "carpetbaggers" were recent arrivals in the region from the North, and freedmen were freed slaves.
