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Farming remained the the main economic activity. It moved west with settlement. Inventions, such as cotton gin, encouraged planters to grow even more crops.
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Answer:
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<em>D. He helped form some successful businesses that are still in existence today</em>.
Explanation:
He was the founder of six industrial giants: American Telephone and Telegraph, General Electric, International Harvester, United States Steel Corporation, Westinghouse House Electric Corporation, and Western Union. His investment firm J.P. in general. Morgan & Co developed a scheme for investing in giant corporate projects together with investment banks.
The Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War. The Freedmen’s Bureau provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war. However, the bureau was prevented from fully carrying out its programs due to a shortage of funds and personnel, along with the politics of race and Reconstruction.
