ChaseDream
搜索
返回列表 发新帖
查看: 2401|回复: 0
打印 上一主题 下一主题

【快考了,急】老prep阅读 Essay #16. Lien laws

[复制链接]
跳转到指定楼层
楼主
发表于 2011-10-7 19:15:07 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式

Planter-legislators of the post-Civil War southern United States enacted crop lien laws stipulating that those who advanced cash or supplies necessary to plant a crop would receive, as security, a claim, or lien, on the crop produced.In doing so, planters, most of whom were former slaveholders, sought access to credit from merchants and control over nominally free laborers--former slaves freed by the victory of the northern Union over the southern Confederacy in the United States Civil War.They hoped to reassure merchants that despite the emancipation of the slaves, planters would produce crops and pay debts.Planters planned to use their supply credit to control their workers, former slaves who were without money to rent land or buy supplies. Planters imagined continuation of the pre-Civil War economic hierarchy:merchants supplying landlords, landlords supplying laborers, and laborers producing crops from which their scant wages and planters' profits would come, allowing planters to repay advances.Lien laws frequently had unintended consequences, however, thwarting the planter fantasy of mastery without slavery.The newly freed workers, seeking to become self-employed tenant farmers rather than wage laborers, made direct arrangements with merchants for supplies.Lien laws, the centerpiece of a system designed to create a dependent labor force, became the means for workers, with alternative means of supply advances, to escape that dependence.



Question #53.563-02(23784-!-item-!-188;#058&000563-02)
According to the passage, each of the following was a reason planters supported crop lien laws EXCEPT:
(A) Planters believed that lien laws would allow them to expand their landholdings. (虽然我做的时候也没在文中看到)
(B) Planters expected that lien laws would give them control over former slaves.
(C) Planters anticipated that lien laws would help themretainaccess to merchant credit.
(D) Planters intended to use lien laws to create a dependent labor force.(但是我觉得从"Planters imagined continuation of the pre-Civil War economic hierarchy。。。看出他们不想free labor force啊
(E) Planters saw lien laws as a way to maintain their traditional economic status.

answer a


麻烦指教下啊,谢谢!!
收藏收藏 收藏收藏
您需要登录后才可以回帖 登录 | 立即注册

Mark一下! 看一下! 顶楼主! 感谢分享! 快速回复:

手机版|ChaseDream|GMT+8, 2025-2-22 04:03
京公网安备11010202008513号 京ICP证101109号 京ICP备12012021号

ChaseDream 论坛

© 2003-2025 ChaseDream.com. All Rights Reserved.

返回顶部