RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Which event was the MOST significant in empowering freedmen?
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Reconstruction of southern state governments
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Ratification of the 14th ammendment
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Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
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Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Congressman John A. Bingham of Ohio, the primary author of the first section of the 14th Amendment, intended that the amendment also nationalize the Bill of Rights by making it binding upon the states.
Detailed explanation-2: -It granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and enslaved people who had been emancipated after the American Civil War. It included them under the umbrella phrase “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”
Detailed explanation-3: -The Reconstruction Amendments, or the Civil War Amendments, are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the United States Constitution, adopted between 1865 and 1870.
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