RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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African-American civil rights were enforced through the Freedmen’s Bureau.
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By constitutional proclamation, African Americans were given small land grants.
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African-American men were given the right to vote.
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African Americans were granted social and economic equality.
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Detailed explanation-1: -During Reconstruction, the Texas government was forced to write a new constitution. How were African Americans affected by this new constitution? African-American civil rights were enforced through the Freedmen’s Bureau. By constitutional proclamation, African Americans were given small land grants.
Detailed explanation-2: -Texas’s new constitution, ratified by voters in November 1869, gave support to public education and granted suffrage to adult male African Americans. Shortly thereafter, the 12th Texas Legislature (1870-71) approved the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the end of 1965, a quarter of a million new Black voters had been registered, one-third by federal examiners. By the end of 1966, only four out of 13 southern states had fewer than 50 percent of African Americans registered to vote.
Detailed explanation-4: -Meanwhile, the Reconstruction acts gave former male slaves the right to vote and hold public office. Congress also passed two amendments to the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment made African-Americans citizens and protected citizens from discriminatory state laws.