Chapter 22 Mark the one best answer for each of the following questions. 27. The fate of the Confederate leaders after 1865 was that a. most were jailed for an extended period of time. b. several were executed for treason. c. all were eventually pardoned. d. none was ever allowed to hold political office again. e. several went into exile in Brazil. 28. In the postwar South a. the economy was utterly devastated. b. the emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence. c. the much-feared inflation never materialized. d. industry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish. e. poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery. 29. At the end of the Civil War, many white Southerners