Among the accomplishments of Radical Reconstruction were all the following except:
A. setting up the beginnings of state school systems.
B. repairing some of the physical damage of the Civil War.
C. relieving the freedmen from continued economic dependence on whites.
D. rewriting state constitutions, introducing universal male suffrage, and instituting a more equitable apportionment of the legislatures.
Ans: C. Relieving the freedmen from continued economic dependence on whites.
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