"Although important strides were made, Reconstruction failed to provide lasting guarantees of the civil rights of the freedmen."
Which evidence best supports this statement:
A. passage of Jim Crow laws in the latter part of the 19th century
B. ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
c. refusal of Southern States to allow sharecropping
D. passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1866