How were the carpetbaggers able to influence freed slaves in the south?
a. they gave them land and them start farms.
b. they took advantage of their inability to read and write.
c. they promised them high-paying jobs in the newly elected government.
d. they set up schools that only taught blacks what the carpetbaggers wanted them to know.

the answer to fill in the blank in this question would be the word resource, it is defined as the money, material or people (since human resource is a very valuable good) that a company or a person has at disposition (meaning they can use the resource as they see fit), to be able to complete a task or achieve a goal.  

the answer is a. since they were a huge producer of cotton and wanted the most money for it.