RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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It denied black Americans the franchise [the right to vote] in the South.
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It required federal troops to supervise voting in Southern elections.
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It determined whether or not an ex-slave was a freedman.
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It determined whether one was able to own or rent land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It provided that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, and their lineal descendants, would be exempt from recently enacted educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.
Detailed explanation-2: -Passed by Congress February 26, 1869, and ratified February 3, 1870, the 15th Amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1915 the Supreme Court declared the grandfather clause unconstitutional because it violated equal voting rights guaranteed by the Fifteenth Amendment.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the main effect of the grandfather clauses and literacy tests put in place in the South at the end of the 19th century? African American voters were disenfranchised. What was the main effect of the Jim Crow system? It undermined the civil rights that African Americans had gained during Reconstruction.