During the Reconstruction Period

Multiple Choice

During the Reconstruction period

A) thousands of ex-Confederate leaders were tried,imprisoned,and executed for war crimes.
B) each adult freedman was given "forty acres and a mule."
C) three-fourths of the ex-slaves moved north to take advantage of higher wages there.
D) the illiteracy rate among southern blacks was reduced significantly.
E) most of the ex-slaves moved west.