RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Forced to work in the labor economy under the sharecropping system
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Creation of a separate public education system for African American children
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Establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau to aid the former slaves adjust to their freedom.
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Ratification of the 14th amendment to guarantee civil rights to all people.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Four million newly freed African Americans faced the future of previously-unknown freedom from the old plantation system, with few rights or protections, and surrounded by a war-weary and intensely resistant white population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why was it difficult for southern free blacks to gain economic independence after the Civil War? Southern blacks emerged from slavery with no money to begin their new lives, so they had to rely on the crop-lien and sharecropping systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Southern economy and social structure was in ruins. the Civil War (about 2% of America’s population at the time). they needed jobs and housing to support themselves and their families. In addition, many former slaves could not read or write.