Question

The United States faced a number of political economic and social challenges after the Civil War. Which of the following was mainly an economic challenge?

A. managing the increased centralization of the federal government
B. deciding citizenship rights of freed slaves
C. incorporating freed slaves into the post-Civil War South
D. restoring the South's devalued currency

Answer 1

D. restoring the South's devalued currency. This is an economic challenge as it deals with money, and the other answers don't deal with economics.

Answer 2

Option: D. restoring the South's devalued currency

Step-by-step explanation:

In 1860, the Southern states were destroyed in the Civil War, to restore the country, Reconstruction was announced by the President of America to rebuild the South. The economic challenges the North faced, were in restoring the currency in the South after the war. Before the war, the South had its currency known as the Confederate States dollar (Greyback), which got devalued as the South started losing the war.