RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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The military was used to enforce federal policies and the 13, 14, and 15 Amendments.
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Military officers often tried to undermine the laws passed by the national government.
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The military continued to use the resources of the South and weakened their economy.
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The South welcomed the presence of military troops as a means of keeping them safe.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The acts created five military districts in the seceded states (excepting Tennessee, which had already been readmitted). They also required former Confederate states to submit new constitutions to Congress for approval, to extend voting rights to all men, and to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Following the Civil War as part of the Reconstruction period, various Civil Rights Acts (sometimes called Enforcement Acts) were passed to extend rights of emancipated slaves, prohibit discrimination, and fight violence directed at the newly freed populations.
Detailed explanation-3: -During Radical Reconstruction, which began with the passage of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, newly enfranchised Black people gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, sometimes known as the Reconstruction Amendments, were critical to providing African Americans with the rights and protections of citizenship.