RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Many gained free land from the government on which to farm.
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Most worked on plantations for excellent pay.
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Most found themselves in hopelessly impoverished circumstances.
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Many sought to attend universities and colleges in the South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Compromise of 1876 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.
Detailed explanation-2: -Blacks had gained more rights. The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the country. The Fourteenth Amendment said that blacks in the country were now citizens. Blacks also had gained the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the end of the Reconstruction affect the lives of African-Americans? Hate groups like the KKK became active. Jim Crow laws kept them segregated, kept them socially inferior, kept them from voting, and they were kept economically poor by the sharecropping system and were denied opportunities to own land.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Reconstruction era redefined U.S. citizenship and expanded the franchise, changed the relationship between the federal government and the governments of the states, and highlighted the differences between political and economic democracy.