RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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scalawags
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African Americans
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carpetbaggers
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wealthy landowners
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Radical Republicans led the Reconstruction of the South. All Republican factions supported Ulysses Grant for president in 1868.
Detailed explanation-2: -White southern Republicans, known to their enemies as “scalawags, ” made up the biggest group of delegates to the Radical Reconstruction-era legislatures.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Radical Republicans were a faction of the Republican party that sought to impose a harsh version of Reconstruction over the former Confederate states following the Civil War. They were also very supportive of establishing and protecting the civil and voting rights of the newly freed Black population of the south.
Detailed explanation-4: -Since Southern Democrats had left Congress when their Confederate states seceded, the Republican Party dominated the federal government and national politics during the Era of Reconstruction.