Which of the Following Statements About the End of Reconstruction

question 14

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the end of Reconstruction is accurate?

• A) A lack of respect for private property and free enterprise prevented any real assault on economic privilege in the South.
• B) Given the context within which Americans of the 1860s and 1870s were working, it is surprising that Reconstruction did so little.
• C) Many white Southern leaders sympathized with Republican economic policies in the South but could not publicly support them.
• D) The president and his party had hoped to build up a "new Democratic" organization in the South.
• E) The president and his party proved uninterested in supporting even modest acceptance of African American rights.

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