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RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

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In 1867, Congress passed a law requiring that a new constitution adopted by former confederate states guarantee African American men the right to vote. However, a majority of Northern states continued to deny African American men this right until 1870. What action did the government take to resolve this problem?
A
It created the Freedmen’s Bureau.
B
It adopted the 15th Amendment.
C
It took congressional seats away from those states.
D
It sent troops to enforce voting rights
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.

Detailed explanation-3: -A major provision of the 14th Amendment was to grant citizenship to “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, ” thereby granting citizenship to formerly enslaved people.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Wade-Davis Reconstruction Bill would also have abolished slavery, but it required that 50 percent of a state’s White males take a loyalty oath to the United States (and swear they had never assisted the Confederacy) to be readmitted to the Union.

Detailed explanation-5: -What were the provisions of the Reconstruction Act of 1867? Divided the South into five military districts, member of the ruling class before the war lost their voting rights, before the Southern states could reenter the Union, they would have to do two things, 1.

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