RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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They opposed the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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They encouraged the freedmen to exercise their new political rights.
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They persuaded President Johnson to pardon former Confederate leaders.
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They prevented President Johnson from sending federal troops to the South.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What impact did Radical Republicans in Congress have on Reconstruction? They encouraged the freedmen to exercise their new political rights. Which is the best contemporary definition of a “scalawag"? A white Southerner who supported Reconstruction.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Radical Republicans’ most important measures were contained in the Reconstruction Acts of 1867 and 1868, which placed the Southern states under military government and required universal manhood suffrage. Despite the Radical program, however, white control over Southern state governments was gradually restored.
Detailed explanation-3: -Radical Republican voices ultimately passed several bills including the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875, established the Freedmen’s Bureau, fought to for the support required for the passage and ratification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution, and passed the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
Detailed explanation-4: -During Radical Reconstruction, which began with the passage of the Reconstruction Act of 1867, newly enfranchised Black people gained a voice in government for the first time in American history, winning election to southern state legislatures and even to the U.S. Congress.
Detailed explanation-5: -Radical Republicans won over two-thirds of the seats in the House of Representatives and the Senate. They now had the power to override Johnson’s vetoes and pass the Civil Rights Act and the bill to extend the Freedmen’s Bureau, and they did so immediately. Congress had now taken charge of the South’s reconstruction.