RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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legalized
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ratified
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increased
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gradually decreased
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Detailed explanation-1: -Blacks had gained more rights. The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the country. The Fourteenth Amendment said that blacks in the country were now citizens. Blacks also had gained the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -During the decade known as Radical Reconstruction (1867-77), Congress granted Black American men the status and rights of citizenship, including the right to vote, as guaranteed by the 14th Amendment and 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War, many African Americans began voting in Southern states. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave them this right. After Reconstruction ended in 1877, however, Southern legislatures passed poll taxes to keep African Americans from voting.