LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Laws were created to increase African Americans’ rights.
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Poll Taxes were decreased to ensure voting practices.
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Laws were created to limit African Americans’ rights.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -After Reconstruction, states in the South passed laws that barred African Americans from voting and segregated schools, restaurants, and public accommodations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave the vote to all male citizens regardless of color or previous condition of servitude. African Americans became involved in the political process not only as voters but also as governmental representatives at the local, state and national level.
Detailed explanation-3: -Reconstruction Comes to an End After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the end of Reconstruction, racial segregation laws were enacted. These laws became popularly known as Jim Crow laws. They remained in force from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until 1965. The laws mandated racial segregation as policy in all public facilities in the southern states.