RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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They were able to buy land from former plantation owners and expand their farms.
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They were forced to compete with newly freed slaves for land and social status.
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They were able to run for offices and take over political power that had belonged to the elite.
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They were forced to sell their land to the government in order to pay their debts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Among the other achievements of Reconstruction were the South’s first state-funded public school systems, more equitable taxation legislation, laws against racial discrimination in public transport and accommodations and ambitious economic development programs (including aid to railroads and other enterprises).
Detailed explanation-2: -Blacks had gained more rights. The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the country. The Fourteenth Amendment said that blacks in the country were now citizens. Blacks also had gained the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -During Reconstruction, many small white farmers, thrown into poverty by the war, entered into cotton production, a major change from prewar days when they concentrated on growing food for their own families. Out of the conflicts on the plantations, new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery.