What Was Reconstruction

Multiple Choice

What was Reconstruction?

A) the struggle for newly freed slaves to gain the right to vote,especially in the South
B) the gradual elimination of both Black Codes and Jim Crow laws
C) the refusal of Southern states to abide by the Fourteenth Amendment until forced to do so by the Supreme Court -Consider This: Reconstruction was ultimately ended due to the contested election of 1876.
D) the period after the Civil War when the South was occupied by the federal government