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Presidential and Radical Reconstruction

Question 4 • RMA FL-2100310-United States History Semester 1

Vagrancy laws in the 1860s applied to

Answer
A
the property that African Americans were allowed to rent or own.
B
people who moved from place to place without regular homes or work.
C
the role of the planter aristocracy in Southern state legislatures.
D
voter registration rights for newly freed African Americans in the South.

Explanation

Vagrancy laws targeted people who were considered to have no fixed home or regular employment. In the 1860s, Southern authorities used these laws to arrest many newly freed African Americans who were unemployed or traveling to find work. Therefore, the correct choice is people who moved from place to place without regular homes or work.

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