RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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The Ku Klux Klan was outlawed by the federal government.
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The South was split into military districts and governed under martial law.
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The Democratic party was banned from participating in state elections.
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Plantation owners were forced to relocate to the American West.
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Detailed explanation-1: -How did the federal government respond when former Confederate states refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment? Plantation owners were forcefully relocated to the American West.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of some former Confederate states’ refusal to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, Congress established military rule in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Congress required former Confederate states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment as a condition of regaining federal representation.