RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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They stopped paying for troops in the South.
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They stopped funding Reconstruction legislation.
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They passed Jim Crow laws.
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They overturned the 13th Amendment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was the biggest change made by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives? They stopped funding Reconstruction legislation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reconstruction ended with the contested Presidential election of 1876, which put Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in office in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South. Republicans and Democrats responded to the economic declines by shifting attention from Reconstruction to economic recovery.
Detailed explanation-3: -During Reconstruction, Radical Republicans increasingly took control, led by Sumner and Stevens. They demanded harsher measures in the South, more protection for the Freedmen and more guarantees that the Confederate nationalism was totally eliminated.
Detailed explanation-4: -Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency an unparalleled reputation for public service as an engineer, administrator, and humanitarian.