RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
PRESIDENT LINCOLNS LEGACY
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Question
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African-American churches arose as centers of life and politics for their community.
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Blacks were unable to serve in public offices or vote at any point during Reconstruction.
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Some Blacks were elected to Congress during Reconstruction.
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At times, there was conflict within the African-American community over the issue of social status.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Four million newly freed African Americans faced the future of previously-unknown freedom from the old plantation system, with few rights or protections, and surrounded by a war-weary and intensely resistant white population.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of the Union victory in the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1865), nearly four million slaves were freed. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) granted African Americans citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) guaranteed their right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following is NOT true about the South after the war? Its labor system remained undisturbed. (But it is TRUE that the South accounted for only 12 percent of the nation’s wealth; 50% of all farm machinery was destroyed; & factories and railroads were demolished.)
Detailed explanation-4: -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.