How was governmental reform similar in south carolina and across the nation

After the end of the Civil War in 1865, many efforts were made in order to unify the country. This period was known as "The Reconstruction". Congress passed a series of Acts known as "The Reconstruction Acts", which were signed during the "First Legislature after the War in South Carolina in 1866. These acts established military rule over the Southern States until the establishment of new governments. They also restricted the rights of some former Confederate officers to vote and run for offices.

i believe we're not a republic so that is a hard question

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: