To many Northerners, the Black Codes seemed to indicate that
a. the transition to black freedom would be easy.
b. blacks were unable to manage the transition to freedom autonomously.
c. the Civil War had been worth the sacrifice.
d. presidential Reconstruction was working effectively and swiftly.
e. the arrogant South was acting as if the North had not really won the Civil War and the North had sacrificed its young men in vain.
e
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A) Emancipation Proclamation. B) Contraband Confiscation Act. C) Field Order 15 issued by Sherman. D) Thirteenth Amendment.