RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Women were given the right to vote.
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Confederate leaders never again held elected office
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Public education systems were established for students of all races.
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The South remained divided into five districts governed by martial law.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Reconstruction proved to be a mixed bag for Southerners. On the positive side, African Americans experienced rights and freedoms they had never possessed before. They could vote, own property, receive an education, legally marry and sign contracts, file lawsuits, and even hold political office.
Detailed explanation-2: -What was a positive long-term impact of Radical Reconstruction on the South? Public education systems were established for students of all races. What was an important effect of the sharecropping system and debt peonage? Freedmen often remained in a state of economic dependence on their former masters.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Positive effects of reconstruction: With reconstruction, America became a home to the African-Americans in a real sense. Reconstruction legally abolished the slavery with the thirteenth amendment. The federal government restricted all territories from continuing slavery.