RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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African Americans losing civil rights, poor whites remained poor, sharecropping
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Gave blacks the right to run for political office
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Created the US postal service
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Attracted immigrants from Ireland
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Negative: Republican party couldn’t stay in power. The former slaves weren’t given economic resources to enable them to succeed. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments were undermined in the Supreme Court.
Detailed explanation-3: -Abstract. Reconstruction failed in the United States because white Southerners who were opposed to it effectively used violence to undermine Black political power and force uncommitted white Southerners to their side.