RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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African Americans resented interference from Northern carpetbaggers.
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Many white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for African Americans.
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Slavery remained in force in several Southern states.
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African Americans did not hold office at the state or local level.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did new Republican governments in the South after the Civil War have difficulty? African Americans resented interference from Northern carpetbaggers. Slavery remained in force in several Southern states. Many white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for blacks.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.