RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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A It led to African Americans being elected to every political office except governor.
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B It prevented former slaves from serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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It denied voting rights to anyone who had formerly been classified as a slave.
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D It prevented the establishment of sharecropping contracts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Additionally, the 1868 constitution abolished debtors’ prison, provided for public education, abolished property ownership as a qualification for office holding, granted some rights to women, and created counties.
Detailed explanation-2: -This constitution was the first to be drawn up by a specially elected convention of delegates of the “People of the State of South Carolina.” It continued in effect until 1861. By its terms the separation of church and state was completed and rights of primogeniture were abolished.
Detailed explanation-3: -10, 1895: South Carolina Constitutional Convention Convened. On Sept. 10, 1895, the South Carolina constitutional convention was convened by U.S. Senator Benjamin “Pitchfork” Tillman and his political allies to disenfranchise African Americans and establish Jim Crow segregation.