Author Question: As part of their efforts to Redeem the South from Republican-centered Reconstruction, Southern ... (Read 47 times)

lb_gilbert · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

As part of their efforts to Redeem the South from Republican-centered Reconstruction, Southern Democrats divided into

A) businessmen who envisioned an industrialized New South and Bourbons who represented the old planter elite.
B) businessmen who envisioned an industrialized New South and Segregationists who wanted to keep blacks and whites apart.
C) segregationists who wanted to keep blacks and whites apart and Radicals who envisioned a prosperous and egalitarian South.
D) freedmen who wanted the land and opportunities promised them during Reconstruction and Bourbons who represented the old planter elite.
E) Radicals who envisioned an egalitarian South and Bourbons who represented the old planter elite.

Question 2

What did Ulysses S. Grant's election in 1868 suggest?

A) Reconstruction was not popular anywhere in the country.
B) Sound money was the first priority for most voters.
C) Republicans needed the newly enfranchised southern freedmen to ensure national victories.
D) American voters were tired of corruption in government.
E) Americans were wary of military men in politics.