Which of the following led to official condemnation of the Confederate Congress by the North Carolina legislature and increased class anger within the Confederacy?

A) The decision to allow upper-class women to work as schoolteachers
B) Exemption from military duty of anyone supervising twenty slaves or more
C) The legal requirement that all able-bodied males over the age of sixteen serve in the Confederate Army
D) The low wages paid to those working in the Confederate bureaucracy

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Harman Shergill · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  The exemption from military duty for those supervising twenty or more slaves was seen as a class privilege and led to increased class anger within the Confederacy. This measure and other issues led to the official condemnation of the Confederate Congress by the North Carolina legislature.

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