Question

General William T. Sherman's special Field order 15:a. Gave freed slaves the right to find family members who had been sold.b. Set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.c. Gave forty acres and a mule to blacks who wished to moved to the unsettled American Southwest.d. Gave his men instructions to burn their way through the southern interior to the Atlantic coast.e. Established the freedmen's Bureau to help blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom.

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acres tracts of land in South Carolina for black families, is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Forty acres and a mule was proclaimed by General William Sherman after the civil war, It promised to allot lands the newly freed slaves and the size of the plot couldn't be more than 40 acres. Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson reversed the proclamation and only a few slaves were able to get the benefits.

In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln ordered the confiscation of land in South Carolina to sold to freedman in twenty-acre plots, Treasury Salmon chase expanded it to be forty acres per family. The order also reserved the coastal land in Georgia and South Carolina for the blacks.

The land were  distributed under the military jurisdiction and after some time the states emphasized on wage labor. Hence all the land that was given during the war was returned to it, former owner. Blacks people did manged to get land under the homesteading act. Black land ownership was most in the Mississippi because the land behind the riverfront was underdeveloped. The financial recession of 1910 caused loss of the property for

Answer 2

Answer:

Option: .b. Set aside the Sea Islands and forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.

Explanation:

With the starting of the Civil war in America in 1961, the slaves run away from plantations in the South, which caused huge African Americans without any shelters and food. Most of the freed slaves were with Union troops and camps seeking shelter and protection. General William T. Sherman came with a military field order 15, which allowed freedmen to settle down in the coastal region of South Carolina and Georgia with forty-acre of land with a mule.