RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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The election of Hiram Rhodes Revels in 1870 was significant because he was the first African American to-
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win an election as a member of the Democratic Party
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win a majority of the popular vote in Mississippi
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serve as a member of the U.S. Senate
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run for public office in the South
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Elected by the Mississippi legislature to the United States Senate as a Republican to represent Mississippi in 1870 and 1871 during the Reconstruction era, he was the first African American to serve in either house of the U.S. Congress.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1870 Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American senator. Five years later, Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi took the oath of office. It would be nearly another century, 1967, before Edward Brooke of Massachusetts followed in their historic footsteps.
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