RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Seperate, but Equal Amendments
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Reconstruction Amendments
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Black Codes
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Congressional Reconstruction
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Codes, sometimes called the Black Laws, were laws which governed the conduct of African Americans (free and freed blacks).
Detailed explanation-2: -On March 3, 1865, Congress passed “An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees” to provide food, shelter, clothing, medical services, and land to displaced Southerners, including newly freed African Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -Document C: Henry Adams’s Statement Who wrote this document? When and why was it written? Henry Adams wrote this document in 1880 to explain how a life of a slave is.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.
Detailed explanation-5: -Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified nation: by 1877, all of the former Confederate states had drafted new constitutions, acknowledged the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the U.S. government.