Why did some southerners reject sherman's plan to give land to former slaves?

Answer

Some Southerners rejected Sherman’s plan to give land to former slaves because some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution

Explanation

The confiscation strategy by Sherman was aiming to acquire land to facilitate the settlement of African-Americans received critics from some of the southerners who explained it as unconstitutional. The argument was that the constitution by then did not allow people to practice confiscation of private property.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: