What Caused Many of the Former Confederate States to Run

question 14

Multiple Choice

What caused many of the former Confederate states to run up huge debts under Republican- controlled state governments in the late 1860s?

• A) inequitable tax codes between whites and blacks
• B) financial support for the Freedmen's Bureau
• C) redistribution of land to former slaves
• D) the rapid expansion of government services and expenditures

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