The options of the question are, A) to get rich from the South’s misfortunes. B) to help Southerners to gain control of the new state governments. C) to prevent freedmen from being elected to office. D) to return Southern land to its former owners.
The correct answer is A) to get rich from the South’s misfortunes.
<em>White Southerners though the Northerners’s goal that moved South during the Reconstruction was to get rich from the South’s misfortunes.
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The Reconstruction period was from 1865 to 1877. During these years many people from the North came to the South to help with the Reconstruction. But Southern white people did not trust them because they thought their only goal was to get rich from the South’s misfortunes. Southerners new that Northerners were in their territories for financial gain and personal agenda, not to help. Southern people called Northerners “carpetbaggers”, a pejorative name to identify the Northerners.
<span>She was a
radical leader of China that wanted to preserve her country and its history of
dynasties. She was an Imperial concubine that had gained the throne upon the
death of the Emperor in 1856. Cixi refused to adopt Western models of
government but she highly supported technological and military reforms. She is
known famously in history as the woman who made a decree of banning foot
binding in the practice of Chinese culture. Cixi was also the woman responsible
for turning China into a Constitutional Monarchy.</span>
John Paul Jones was a <span>Scottish American sailor. His significance was that he was a naval fighter. </span>
