RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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Greater responsibility for women and children while husbands and fathers served as soldiers.
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Cotton production decline.
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The United States passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
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Cotton became the top cash crop of Texas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Women were frequently forced out of jobs that were given to returning soldiers, and the wages women had been paid were always lower than those of men.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Although the Civil War temporarily disrupted the women’s rights movement, women’s efforts and the organizations they created laid the foundations for a stronger movement after the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -There were nurses, civilian volunteers, and writers who stood in solidarity with their male counterparts to serve the country they believed in. These women of the Civil War courageously fought not only the enemy soldiers but the traditional expectations of a 19th century gentlewoman.