RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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the end of slavery and a strengthening of the power of the federal government
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recognition of the rights of states to leave the Union and to nullify federal laws
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an end to racial discrimination and establishment of social equality throughout the nation
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the abolition of slavery in all Northern states and in all federal territories north of 36
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil War confirmed the single political entity of the United States, led to freedom for more than four million enslaved Americans, established a more powerful and centralized federal government, and laid the foundation for America’s emergence as a world power in the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -The southern landscape was devastated. A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free.
Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery ended in and with the Civil War both because slaves sought their own freedom and because the Union Army demonstrated that the Confederate government could not make good on its promise to protect the property rights whites held in slavery.