RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Congress changed the voting laws to force African American voters to take literacy tests as a requirement for voting.
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African Americans who were elected to offices during Reconstruction were corrupt and unsuccessful as politicians.
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The number of African American voters declined when the majority of former slaves left the South before the end of Reconstruction.
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The withdrawal of federal troops allowed for the growth of groups that used violence and intimidation to suppress African American voters
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.
Detailed explanation-3: -As the 1870s continued, support for reconstruction throughout the country began to wane. The combination of white intimidation, a significant economic depression in the South, and the Democratic Party winning control of the House of Representatives in 1874, resulted in Reconstruction beginning to fade away.