Base your answer to the questions on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.Excerpt of an 1874 report by Freedman Samuel J. Lee. Lee was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in the elections of 1868. He became Speaker of the House in 1872.Permit me, now to refer to our increased educational advantages. It is very pleasing, gentlemen, to witness how rapidly the schools are springing up in every portion of our State, and how the number of competent, well trained teachers are increasing. . . .Our State University has been renovated and made progressive. New Professors, men of unquestionable ability and erudition, now fill the chairs once filled by men who were too aristocratic to instruct colored youths. A system of scholarships has been established that will, as soon as it is practically in operation, bring into the University a very large number of students ..... The effects of education can also be perceived; the people are becoming daily more enlightened; their minds are expanding, and they have awakened, in a great degree, from the mental darkness that hitherto surrounded them ..... What was the mental darkness referred to by the author?

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Base your answer to the questions on the passage below and on your knowledge of social studies.Excerpt of an 1874 report by Freedman Samuel J. Lee. Lee was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in the elections of 1868. He became Speaker of the House in 1872.Permit me, now to refer to our increased educational advantages. It is very pleasing, gentlemen, to witness how rapidly the schools are springing up in every portion of our State, and how the number of competent, well trained teachers are increasing. . . .Our State University has been renovated and made progressive. New Professors, men of unquestionable ability and erudition, now fill the chairs once filled by men who were too aristocratic to instruct colored youths. A system of scholarships has been established that will, as soon as it is practically in operation, bring into the University a very large number of students ____ The effects of education can also be perceived; the people are becoming daily more enlightened; their minds are expanding, and they have awakened, in a great degree, from the mental darkness that hitherto surrounded them ____ What was the “mental darkness” referred to by the author?

A	segregation in public facilities enforced by Jim Crow policies
B	illiteracy of enslaved people caused by slave codes that banned enslaved people from learning to read and study
C	the violent oppression perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan
D	the growth of anti-racism in the South following the end of the Civil War

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The amendment was introduced during the 39th Congress (1865–1867) in response to the oppressive conditions experienced by millions of previously enslaved African Americans-known as freedpeople-living in the former Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -Some southern states began actively passing laws that restricted the rights of former slaves after the Civil War, and Congress responded with the 14th Amendment, designed to place limits on states’ power as well as protect civil rights.

Detailed explanation-3: -Passed by Congress June 13, 1866, and ratified July 9, 1868, the 14th Amendment extended liberties and rights granted by the Bill of Rights to formerly enslaved people.

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RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS