RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
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treat the freedmen like slaves by passing Black Codes that prevented them from jobs other than farming and household service.
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give the freedmen economic power and political authority by voting former slaves into local government offices.
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please the northern states by electing leaders who were not former slave owners.
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reject the former leaders of the Confederacy by banning them from current government offices
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Detailed explanation-1: -After the Civil War, sharecropping and tenant farming took the place of slavery and the plantation system in the South. Sharecropping and tenant farming were systems in which white landlords (often former plantation slaveowners) entered into contracts with impoverished farm laborers to work their lands.
Detailed explanation-2: -By 1870 all the former Confederate states had been readmitted to the Union, and nearly all were controlled by the Republican Party.
Detailed explanation-3: -Why was it difficult for southern free blacks to gain economic independence after the Civil War? Southern blacks emerged from slavery with no money to begin their new lives, so they had to rely on the crop-lien and sharecropping systems.