RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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It expanded
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It suffered mild setbacks
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It suffered significant setbacks
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Nothing much
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southern agriculture gradually changed and improved. New methods of farming allowed people in the South to raise larger crops. Northerners invested large sums of money to build railroads and factories in the South. As a result, people began moving from the farms to the cities looking for jobs.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Southern economy and social structure was in ruins. the Civil War (about 2% of America’s population at the time). they needed jobs and housing to support themselves and their families. In addition, many former slaves could not read or write.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sharecropping dominated the cotton and tobacco South, while wage labor was the rule on sugar plantations. Increasingly, both white and black farmers came to depend on local merchants for credit. A cycle of debt often ensued, and year by year the promise of economic independence faded.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the negative side, however, Reconstruction led to great resentment and even violence among Southerners. Terrorist organizations, like the Ku Klux Klan, struck fear into the hearts of African Americans and anyone who cooperated with the Republican governments.