RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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They opposed the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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They encouraged the freedmen to exercise their new political rights.
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They persuaded President Johnson to pardon former Confederate leaders.
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They prevented President Johnson from sending federal troops to the South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. Despite the Radical program, however, white control over Southern state governments was gradually restored.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -This act divided the South into military districts, established martial law, and set the requirements for the former Confederates states’ readmission to the Union.
Detailed explanation-4: -Instead, the Radical Republicans created a joint committee of representatives and senators to oversee Reconstruction. In the 1866 congressional elections, they gained control of the House, and in the ensuing years, they pushed for the dismantling of the old Southern order and the complete reconstruction of the South.