Question

Due to many policies that restricted or taxed white landowners in the south, many people claim the Reconstruction was meant to punish slave owners. This was due to laws, taxation, and the loss of property. Southerners, especially Southerners who owned land prior to the war, felt that certain types of people took advantage of their struggles. They even had names for them; northerners who came south to profit off of the struggles of whites in the South were called Carpetbaggers while a southerner who did the same thing was called a Scalawag. The desire of some Radical Republicans to punish the South, especially ex-slave owners, would cause anger and frustration to build, and plantation owners grew more frustrated and angry about reconstruction.

O a. Reconstruction was all inclusive; white southerners were not treated unfairly.
• b. Most white Southerners who owned property prior to the south lost nothing in the war or during Reconstruction, which led to positive feelings about Reconstruction.
O c. Reconstruction was a time period where some people took advantage of the chaos that occurred after the war for
personal gain; this behavior caused the white Southerners to become angry and frustrated.

Answer 1

Answer:
C. Reconstruction was a time period where some people took advantage of the chaos that occurred after the war for personal gain; this behavior caused the white Southerners to become angry and frustrated.

Step-by-step explanation:

The statement c accurately describes the situation during Reconstruction. The Reconstruction era (1865-1877) was a complex and tumultuous period following the Civil War in the United States. It aimed to address the issues of integrating former Confederate states back into the Union and ensuring civil rights for newly freed African Americans. However, it was also a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, which provided opportunities for some individuals, both from the North (Carpetbaggers) and the South (Scalawags), to exploit the situation for their own personal gain.