Which selection from the article BEST supports
the idea that Reconstruction was a dangerous
time for African-Americans?
А
Nearly all the men of fighting age took part
in the war, and many were killed. Likewise,
many farms were destroyed or neglected.
B.
Without land or money, most former slaves
had to continue working for white masters,
but they were not willing to live in the old
slave quarters.
С
A series of disastrously bad crops in the late
1860s, followed by a period when farmers
couldn't sell their crops for high prices in the
1870s, hurt both whites and blacks.
D
Sometimes their hostility was expressed
through terrorist organizations such as the
Ku Klux Klan. Groups like the KKK sought to
punish African-Americans who tried to gain
their rights.