RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Choose the items that DOES NOT describe African Americans in Georgia during the period of Reconstruction.
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African Americans were elected to the General Assembly during Reconstruction.
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African Americans officially gained the right to vote as a result of the 15th Amendment.
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An African American was elected Governor during Reconstruction.
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African Americans gained political and economic power during Reconstruction.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -During Reconstruction, about 2, 000 African American men served in political office. Hundreds of blacks held local offices in the South, more than 600 were elected to state legislatures, and 16 served in Congress. To take these posts, they often had to win elections plagued by violence and fraud.
Detailed explanation-2: -Four million newly freed African Americans faced the future of previously-unknown freedom from the old plantation system, with few rights or protections, and surrounded by a war-weary and intensely resistant white population.
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