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RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

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SS.912.A.2.2The statement below was by Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican leader."If [African-American] suffrage is excluded in the rebel states, then every one of them is sure to send a [Democratic] representation to Congress and pass asolid [Democratic] electoral vote [for President]."What reason did Stevens give in this statement for granting voting rights to African Americans?
A
African Americans deserved to vote after contributing their unpaid labor for centuries.
B
Democrats and Republicans were in agreement on the fairness of letting all races vote.
C
Republicans must offer voting rights to freedmen before Southern Democrats do.
D
Black voters would help Republicans to maintain control of the Congress and Presidency.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Radical Republicans were a group of politicians who formed a faction within the Republican party that lasted from the Civil War into the era of Reconstruction. They were led by Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives and Charles Sumner in the Senate.

Detailed explanation-2: -What reason did Stevens give in his statement for granting voting rights to African Americans? African Americans deserved the right to vote after contributing their unpaid labor for centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun. : a Republican favoring drastic and usually repressive measures against the southern states in the period following the Civil War.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Radical Republicans’ most important measures were contained in the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868, which placed the Southern states under military government and required universal manhood suffrage.

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