RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Loss of their idea of state’s rights
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After the war, they feared that freedmen would rise up against them in violence
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Loss of their slaves, homes, farms, businesses, wealth and male relatives
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first three of these postwar amendments accomplished the most radical and rapid social and political change in American history: the abolition of slavery (13th) and the granting of equal citizenship (14th) and voting rights (15th) to former slaves, all within a period of five years.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a result of the Union victory in the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution (1865), nearly four million slaves were freed. The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) granted African Americans citizenship, and the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) guaranteed their right to vote.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Civil War confirmed the single political entity of the United States, led to freedom for more than four million enslaved Americans, established a more powerful and centralized federal government, and laid the foundation for America’s emergence as a world power in the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-4: -For the largest slaveholding families, they lost on the order of 50, 60, 70 percent more wealth after the war than similarly wealthy families. Fleisher: You found that these families were basically able to recover their losses within a few generations. Their grandsons by 1940 had recovered all the wealth they’d lost.