RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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They believed that African Americans were plotting to acquire plantation land.
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They believed voters should be able to read in order to vote.
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They believed African Americans were taking bribes.
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They believed “Black Republicanism” ruled the South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -scalawag, after the American Civil War, a pejorative term for a white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction or who joined with black freedmen and the so-called carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies.
Detailed explanation-2: -During Reconstruction, the Republican Party in the South represented a coalition of Black people (who made up the overwhelming majority of Republican voters in the region) along with “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags, ” as white Republicans from the North and South, respectively, were known.
Detailed explanation-3: -Domestically, reactions were mixed. Predictably, Southern newspapers denounced the action, and reported that Jefferson Davis had announced that the confederate army would no longer exchange hostages and would kill rather than taking hostage any African-American soliders.
Detailed explanation-4: -White southerners reacted to President Andrew Johnson’s mild Reconstruction program by opressing the freed slaves and returning to leading Confederates to power.