Which of the following factors prompted congressional opposition to land reforms?

a. desire to move from being a cotton-dependent economy to an industrial economy
b. antipathy to the Redeemers who had emerged in the aftermath of the Civil War
c. absence of a viable alternative to the agricultural labor system of slavery
d. concern for property rights


Ans: d. concern for property rights

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