Why Were Many of the Delegates to the Constitutional Conventions

question 33

Multiple Choice

Why were many of the delegates to the constitutional conventions in 1867 and 1868 Republicans?

• A) The Republican Party was well liked and accepted among southerners.
• B) White Democrats boycotted the elections to protest Congress's Reconstruction plan and the effort to give blacks the vote.
• C) The Republicans bribed blacks to support them, thereby gaining the upper hand at the conventions.
• D) President Johnson issued an executive order stating that Republicans had to be a certain percentage of the delegates.

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