RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Several states reintroduced the slave trade
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Several states passed laws to limit the opportunities of African Americans
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Several states recalled national legislators and proposed secession
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Several states introduced constitutional amendments to expand citizenship and voting rights for former slaves
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Detailed explanation-1: -After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fate of African Americans was gradually turned over to individual states, many of which adopted restrictive ‘Jim Crow’ laws that enforced segregation based on race and imposed measures aimed at keeping African Americans from voting booths.
Detailed explanation-3: -Presidential Reconstruction Johnson offered a pardon to all Southern whites except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these subsequently received individual pardons), restoring their political rights and all property except slaves. He also outlined how new state governments would be created.
Detailed explanation-4: -After the end of Reconstruction, racial segregation laws were enacted. These laws became popularly known as Jim Crow laws. They remained in force from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until 1965. The laws mandated racial segregation as policy in all public facilities in the southern states.