RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Women had to take over business, and farms without training
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Many women lost husbands, sons and other male relatives
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Women’s rights movment became more popular and widespread
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Voting ensures women’s reproductive and economic progress. The 19th Amendment helped millions of women move closer to equality in all aspects of American life. Women advocated for job opportunities, fairer wages, education, sex education, and birth control.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although the Civil War temporarily disrupted the women’s rights movement, women’s efforts and the organizations they created laid the foundations for a stronger movement after the war.
Detailed explanation-3: -At the end of the Civil War, women’s rights advocates became concerned with affirming citizenship and the right to vote for newly-freed African Americans. In May 1866, women’s rights advocates founded a new organization, the American Equal Right Association (AERA) to campaign for universal suffrage.
Detailed explanation-4: -One study found that as American women gained the right to vote in different parts of the country, child mortality rates decreased by up to 15 percent. Another study found a link between women’s suffrage in the United States with increased spending on schools and an uptick in school enrollment.