What Was the Belief of Thaddeus Stevens and Other Congressional

question 6

Multiple Choice

What was the belief of Thaddeus Stevens and other congressional Republicans who criticized Lincoln's approach to Reconstruction?

• A) The South's plantation elite erred in establishing the Confederacy, but the Union itself was never broken and endured through the Civil War.
• B) The Reconstruction process outlined in the Constitution should be closely followed.
• C) The president has sole responsibility for Reconstruction.
• D) The Confederate states, by seceding and making war against the United States, lost their status as states and should now be treated as conquered territories.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

Values derived from sample analyses, that fall within a range likely to encompass the parameter of an unseen population.

Sample

A subset of a population selected for measurement, observation, or questioning to provide statistical information about the population.

Standard Error

The standard deviation of the sampling distribution of a statistic, typically the mean, indicating the accuracy of a sample mean estimate relative to the population mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values derived from sample data that is likely to cover the true population parameter with a specified level of confidence.