In what way did the carpetbagger governments attempt land reform and give freed slaves their own property?
a. the confiscation act took land from the planter class and high ranking confederates and gave it to freedmen.
b. they passed the homestead act of 1866, giving forty acres and a mule to freedmen.
c. they set up the sharecropping system which the freedmen preferred to working in the fields just as they had as slaves.
d. since more blacks had been elected to southern state legislatures, they made their own land reform laws.
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