One success of reconstruction was the

a. increase in literacy rates and schools in the south.
b. equal pay for equal work clause.
c. extension of suffrage to women.
d. extension of equal rights to african americans.

The term 'white man's burden" refers to the difficulty of converting colonists to christianity. the belief that europe had a duty to civilize other people. the conviction that white people were superior to all others. the struggle to survive in an increasingly industrialized world.