The Refusal of Most of the Former Confederate States to Ratify

question 109

Multiple Choice

The refusal of most of the former Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866

• A) caused most northerners to support the Radicals' demand that more economic opportunity be extended to freedmen.
• B) caused a thorough restructuring of southern society.
• C) led to general land reform in the South.
• D) forced congressional Republicans to abolish the "Johnson governments" in the South, form new governments, and extend the vote to freedmen.

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