Question

General William T. Sherman’s Special Field Order 15:

a. gave freed slaves the right to find family members who had been sold.
b. gave his men instructions to burn their way through the southern interior to the Atlantic coast.
c. established the Freedmen’s Bureau to help blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom.
d. set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.

Answer 1

Option: D. Set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.

Step-by-step explanation:

Special Field Orders, No. 15 was a military order issued by General Sherman in southern America. The orders were issued to address the urgent problem of dealing with an enormous number of African freed slaves who have left their master's plantations and had joined Sherman's troops in search of shelter and support. Special Field Order 15 kept lands along the Atlantic Coast in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida so that every African Americans families can have a land of not more than forty acres of fertile soil.