The First Reconstruction Act

question 120

Multiple Choice

The First Reconstruction Act

• A) recognized the legitimacy of existing southern state governments.
• B) extended federal support for the education of freedmen in the South.
• C) guaranteed freedmen the right to vote in elections for state constitutional conventions and in subsequent elections.
• D) confiscated large southern plantations and divided them into smaller plots of land.

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