Question

As part of ___, states were required to:
-outlaw slavery
-declare that leaving the Union was wrong
-protect the rights of Black men, such as the right to vote and hold office

A. The Compromise of 1850
B. The Missouri Compromise
C. Reconstruction
D. Freedman's Bureau

Answer 1

C. Reconstruction

During Reconstruction (post–Civil War), former Confederate states had to abolish slavery (13th Amendment), accept the illegality of secession and grant citizenship and equal protection (14th Amendment), and protect Black men's political rights (leading to the 15th Amendment and new state constitutions).