According to the article, North Carolina's
efforts to heal after the Civil War did not end
in the 1800s.
Which paragraph BEST supports this idea?
A-Opponents of Holden's regime used the issue of "white supremacy" and Violence to regain control of state government. The Ku Klux Klan operated in counties with slight
Republican majorities. Using murder and intimidation, the Klan suppressed the Republican vote in 1870.
B-Following the American Civil War, President Andrew Johnson moved to
"reconstruct" the South. At the same time, Southern states, including North Carolina, began to pass "Black Codes." These were laws subjecting formerly enslaved people to a variety of restrictions on their freedom.
C-Former Union General Ulysses S.
Grant was elected president in 1868.
Though aligned with the "Radical
• Republicans" in Congress, who had advanced the Reconstruction Acts, Grant did not provide strong leadership during Reconstruction.
D-More activism and new civil rights laws passed in the mid-1960s helped
North Carolina begin to overcome the legacy of slavery. That struggle continues today.