<p>Oh, nice question. I haven't reviewed late-nineteenth century, yet, so I don't remember the top three... only the easy bottom ones:</p>
<p>the grapes of wrath - John Steinbeck
uncle tom's cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
common sense - Thomas Payne</p>
<p>book by....sinclair? no...Riis! Jacob that displayed urban poverty. Riis was a muckraker, I think.</p>
<p>What was the major southern cash crop in the late 1800s?</p>
<p>upton sinclair -the jungle
jacob riis - how the other half lives</p>
<p>ok and lastly betty friedan wrote the feminine mystique</p>
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<li>betty friedan, about suburban housewives asking "is this all there is?"</li>
<li>steinbeck, hardships of okies with the dustbowl and migration to ca looking for work</li>
<li>harriet beecher stowe, evils of slavery</li>
<li>thomas paine, pamphlet convincing ppl to support revolution against britain</li>
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<p>What was the major southern cash crop in the late 1800s?</p>
<p>cotton?</p>
<p>before that there were tobacco and rice</p>
<p>I wonder what the major cash crop is now..if there is a major cash crop..</p>
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<p>cotton?</p>
<p>before that there were tobacco and rice
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<p>And to a lesser extent, indigo.</p>
<p>I bet its weed. ^_^</p>
<p>mmm, weed.</p>
<p>what was the teapot dome scandal?</p>
<p>"mmm, weed."
...the future of america...summed up in 2 words</p>
<p>Teapot Dome Scandal--
During Warren G.Harding's presidency. The oil was supposed to go to the US Naval Oil Reserves. In 1922, Secretary of Interior Albert Fall (of New Mexico), a Harding appointee at the suggestion of Attorney Daugherty, illegally conveyed the rights to the oil to Sinclair of Sinclair Oil without competitive bidding. Bad mistake. </p>
<p>Doheny and Sinclair were both fined $100,000; Fall was sentenced to prison, making him the first Presidential cabinet member to go to prison for his actions in office.</p>
<p>Well how about Sugar... it was grown mainly in the carribeans and the South Carolina...</p>
<p>what was the shortest term ever served by a president? (since we did the longest)</p>
<p>33 days by Benjamin Harrison. Killed himself by giving a 2 hr long speech in the cold and getting pnuemonia. See..good with the numbers..not the facts..lol</p>
<p>aww...this thread is getting so many first time posters...YAYY!</p>
<p>I think it might be cotton...did whoever posed the question ever reply to us?</p>
<p>Yeah I was just about to say..nice first post duneguy :)
But xeo was here since like October. =O
And that Maryanne girl also posted ..lol..her post for that quiz was so o oo random..kinda like history in general.</p>
<p>Sounds more like trivial pursuit to me.</p>
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<p>did garfield get shot first or harrison cough himself to death first? hrm, harrison probably. </p>
<p>question: what is yellow journalism?</p>
<p>ok another one..</p>
<p>What did deists believe and who were some famous deists?</p>
<p>I posed the question, and it is cotton, men.</p>