Question

Read the excerpt from a speech to the Georgia legislature by Henry McNeal Turner in 1868 and answer the

question.
"I hold that I am a member of this body. Therefore, sir, I shall
neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg them for
my rights. Some... in the course of their remarks, took occasion to
appeal to the sympathies of members on the opposite side.... I am
here to demand my rights and to hurl thunderbolts at the men who
would dare to cross the threshold of my manhood."

What Reconstruction-era development in Georgia was Turner referring to in this excerpt?

A. the General Assembly's enactment of laws restricting African Americans' rights

B. the General Assembly's refusal to outlaw membership in the Ku Klux Klan

C. the support for sharecropping among members of the General Assembly

D. the removal of African American legislators from the General Assembly
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Question 5

Answer 1

The answer is D): The removal of African American legislators from the General Assembly.

Step-by-step explanation:

The reconstruction-era development in Georgia that Turner was referring to in this excerpt, was the era in which, soon after he and 23 other African Americans were elected as representatives to the Georgia State General Assembly (Legislature), a decision was made by the same assembly to expel them because they were people of black color—they were blacks.