A. They feared the consequences of African Americans having political power.
Explanation:
To disenfranchise means to take away a person's right to vote. This was always an issue with African Americans during the Reconstruction. The Southern Democrats were worried that giving the African Americans the right to vote would encourage their participation in politics, which would in turn challenge their political strategies and policies. The Democrats did everything they could to prevent black men from registering to vote despite the fact that the 15th Amendment gave them suffrage.
Early farmers slashed the bark off of trees and let them die because they wanted the soil underneath the tree to get more sun. They thought that if the soil had more sun, their crops would grow faster.
The Wade-Davis Bill passed by Congress, then vetoed by Lincoln stipulated that a majority percentage of voters in Confederate states must take an oath of future loyalty to the Union before a process of restoration could begin. Out of these answers this would be B) 70.
