In Congressional Debates Concerning Reconstruction of the Former Confederate States

question 108

Multiple Choice

In Congressional debates concerning Reconstruction of the former Confederate states, Thaddeus Stevens argued that

• A) freedmen should not be extended the right to vote.
• B) southern property should be confiscated and used to give freedmen homesteads and a chance at economic independence.
• C) all freedmen should be given forty acres from confiscated southern land.
• D) the Fourteenth Amendment should extend the right to vote to women as well as to African Americans.

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