Multiple choice

A former Confederate living in the Reconstruction-era South would most likely support:

  1. the formation of the Freedmen's Bureau

  2. the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment

  3. the passage of Black Codes and Jim Crow laws

  4. the relocation of emancipated slaves to colonies in Africa
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Former Confederates generally opposed the social and political changes of Reconstruction, such as the Freedmen's Bureau and the 14th Amendment. They supported laws like Black Codes and Jim Crow to maintain white supremacy and social control over formerly enslaved people.

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