RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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conservatives who were interested in rebuilding the economy
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former confederates who were hoping to restore their supremacy
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republicans who were attempting to protect the rights of minorities
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civil rights advocates who were faces on election reform
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Detailed explanation-1: -The most profound change in the 1870 Constitution was the permanent abolition of slavery in Tennessee. The real purpose of the Constitution’s framers, however, was to undo the electoral laws and other measures passed by Reconstruction governor William G. Brownlow.
Detailed explanation-2: -In making suffrage changes, the delegates restricted the vote to white men, thereby disfranchising free black males, who had voted under the 1796 Constitution.
Detailed explanation-3: -1870 constitution The third document was largely written as a response to the requirement for all ex-Confederate to adopt new constitutions explicitly banning slavery.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first constitution of the state of Tennessee was adopted in 1796. The constitution was drafted in Knoxville by a convention consisting of 55 delegates. Once it was completed, the delegates sent the Constitution to Washington City for review by the Congress before it adjourned.