RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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setting up schools and colleges for African-Americans
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helping African Americans relocate to midwestern states
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establishing banks and manufacturing industries
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promoting the temperance movement
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Detailed explanation-1: -The American Missionary Association is one example of many religious and charitable groups that worked in South Carolina during Reconstruction. In what areas were they likely to provide aid? Setting up schools and colleges for African-Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -The American Missionary Association (AMA) was an abolitionist group founded on Protestant beliefs. It was focused on the abolition of slavery, education for African Americans, gaining racial equality, and promoting Christian values.
Detailed explanation-3: -The AMA founded more than 500 schools for freed slaves in the South in the decades following the Civil War. These schools were actually open to all students and often operated as integrated institutions during the Reconstruction period.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the goal of normal schools founded by the American Missionary Association? Establish teacher training institutes.
Detailed explanation-5: -How did South Carolina and many other southern states respond to the passage of Reconstruction policies? They passed Black Codes and elected former Confederates to Congress. In what way did the sharecropping system that developed during Reconstruction resemble slavery?