Which of the Following Statements About Conditions in the South

question 9

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about conditions in the South in late 1865 and early 1866 is LEAST accurate?

• A)Terrorist bands of white southerners calling themselves Regulators and Jayhawkers attacked black people with impunity.
• B)The U.S.Congress affirmed the policies of Presidential Reconstruction,thus allowing the worst abuses against southern blacks to continue unchecked.
• C)Elections in the South in late 1865 sent dozens of leading Confederate figures to Congress,including the former vice president of the Confederacy.
• D)In early 1866 the U.S.Congress repudiated the federal elections held in the South in late 1865.

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