Me ! choose one of the following key terms. discuss how your chosen term supports the following statement: "southern whites worked to limit the freedoms of ex-slaves in the years following the civil war." sharecropping tenant farming ku klux klan black codes

Sharecropping.

This phenomena limited the ability for ex-slaves to move up in the social standing. By having to essentially "rent" the land they worked on, as well as give back a large portion of their crops to the land owner, the ex-slaves were unable to surmount a surplus of money or food. This kept them from achieving upward mobility.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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