What Was Reconstruction

question 11

Multiple Choice

What was Reconstruction?

• A)the struggle for newly freed slaves to gain the right to vote,especially in the South
• B)the gradual elimination of both Black Codes and Jim Crow laws
• C)the refusal of Southern states to abide by the Fourteenth Amendment until forced to do so by the Supreme Court -Consider This: Reconstruction was ultimately ended due to the contested election of 1876.
• D)the period after the Civil War when the South was occupied by the federal government