Question

What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Act? A. to provide loans for settlers moving out west B. to give industrialists seed money for new businesses C. to provide a process for readmitting Southern states into the Union D. to create an agency to research the effects of giving voting rights to slaves

Answer 1

The Acts. It was during this conflicted time that the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 were introduced, debated, and eventually passed within Congress but not without controversy. Products of Republican efforts, the purpose of these laws was to reshape the South and secure equal rights for African Americans

Answer 2

The purpose of the Reconstruction Act was ( C ) to provide a process for readmitting Southern states into the Union. Abraham Lincoln established, as part of this process, that if only 10% of the voters in any given southern state would vote as to rejoin the Union, then that state would be readmitted.