RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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granted suffrage to all African American men.
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gave all adult African Americans the right to vote.
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made it illegal to deny the right to vote due to race.
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granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Meanwhile, the Reconstruction acts gave former male slaves the right to vote and hold public office. Congress also passed two amendments to the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment made African-Americans citizens and protected citizens from discriminatory state laws.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 1867 Reconstruction acts divided the South into 5 military districts each governed by a general. They required southern states to guarantee black suffrage and they disfranchised many former confederates. Southern states were required to ratify the 14th amendment as a condition of their readmission to the Union.