USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After Reconstruction, African American children and white children living in the Southhad to eat at separate restaurants. This is an example of-
A
integration
B
voting
C
desegregation
D
segregation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Segregation is made up of two dimensions: vertical segregation and horizontal segregation.

Detailed explanation-2: -On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.

Detailed explanation-3: -With no troops to enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteen Amendments, Reconstruction was at an end. Across the South lynching, disenfranchisement, and segregationist laws proliferated. It would not be until after the Second World War and the 1960s Civil Rights Movement that Jim Crow segregation would be outlawed.

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