RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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transporting Union troops and their supplies caused delays for southerners.
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southern ports had suffered damage from bombing.
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much of the South’s stock of horses had died in battle.
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most of the railroad tracks in the South had been destroyed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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: -Many of the railroads in the South had been destroyed. Farms and plantations were destroyed, and many southern cities were burned to the ground such as Atlanta, Georgia and Richmond, Virginia (the Confederacy’s capitol). The southern financial system was also ruined. After the war, Confederate money was worthless.
Detailed explanation-4: -Effects of the War Unfortunately, 11 cities were destroyed and suffered massive damages during the Civil War. These cities included Richmond, Virginia, Charleston, South Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina.