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RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of FloridaSection 1. It shall be a penal offense for any individual, body of individuals, corporations or association to conduct within this State any school of any grade, public, private or parochial wherein white persons and negros shall be instructed or boarded within the same building, or taught in the same class, or at the same time by the same teachers.Florida State Legislature, 1895How did this law influence conditions for African Americans in Florida?
A
Schools for African-American children received fewer resources than schools for white children.
B
African-American adults were permitted to attend night school to improve their literacy skills.
C
African-Americans were giving the right to attend free public schools in Florida for the first time.
D
African-American parents who opposed racial segregation sent their children to private schools.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -What were the rights and liberties from which Confederates contended? The right to own slaves; the liberty to take this property into the territories; freedom from the coercive power of a centralized government.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage? Freedmen often remained in a slave of economic dependence on their former masters.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which of the following was a key difference between the United States’ strategy and the Confederacy’s strategy during the Civil War? The Union destroyed the South’s ability to wage war by destroying railroads, cities, and cutting off trade, while the Confederacy aimed to win by not losing territory to the North.

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