USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation (declared slavery illegal in the south), signed by Abraham Lincoln, is most similar to what Reconstruction Era law change, which was signed by Congress?
A
Jim Crow Laws
B
The Freedman’s Bureau
C
The 14th Amendment
D
The 13th Amendment
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -With this Proclamation he hoped to inspire all Black people, and enslaved people in the Confederacy in particular, to support the Union cause and to keep England and France from giving political recognition and military aid to the Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Emancipation Proclamation described enslaved people as “all persons held as slaves” and tells them to abstain from all violence (except in self-defense) and to labor for reasonable wages. The 13th Amendment describes ending “slavery or involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime."

Detailed explanation-3: -The Emancipation Proclamation, declared by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War, only freed slaves held in confederate states. Only through the Thirteenth Amendment did emancipation become national policy. It was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, and by the House on January 31, 1865.

Detailed explanation-4: -Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

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