RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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The farmland had gone bad during the war which made farming impossible.
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Their wives had not taken good care of their property while they were gone.
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The fighting during the war had mostly been fought in Southern territory.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Use the article “One Nation Again” and your knowledge of social studies to answer this question. What is the most likely reason the Southern soldiers’ homes and communities were destroyed when they returned from the Civil War? The fighting during the war had mostly been fought in Southern territory.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Following Reconstruction, Southern state governments systematically stripped African-Americans of their basic political and civil rights. Literacy Tests. Many freedmen, lacking a formal education, could not pass these reading and writing tests. As a result, they were barred from voting.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first three of these postwar amendments accomplished the most radical and rapid social and political change in American history: the abolition of slavery (13th) and the granting of equal citizenship (14th) and voting rights (15th) to former slaves, all within a period of five years.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Reconstruction era was the period after the American Civil War from 1865 to 1877, during which the United States grappled with the challenges of reintegrating into the Union the states that had seceded and determining the legal status of African Americans.