RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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To Vote or Not to Vote?
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Life in the South
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A Return to Slavery?
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement about President Lincoln’s death is best supported by information from this week’s issue? John Wilkes Booth assassinated Lincoln because he was upset with the results of the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-2: -Radical Reconstruction, also called Congressional Reconstruction, process and period of Reconstruction during which the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Congress seized control of Reconstruction from Pres.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.
Detailed explanation-4: -Innovative legislation was not forthcoming to help ease the discrimination that many newly freed slaves felt in the South. However, the Reconstruction Amendments did their part: they officially ended overt slavery, gave citizenship to newly freed African Americans, and established the right to vote regardless of race.