RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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African Americans in the North could vote.
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State governments were required to protect individual rights.
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Former Confederate officials were prohibited from holding elected office.
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African Americans in the South could move elsewhere.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S. slaves wherever they were.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was a transformative moment in American history. The first Section’s declaration that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist” had the immediate and powerful effect of abolishing chattel slavery in the southern United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Detailed explanation-4: -Which statement best describes the Thirteenth Amendment? A)It abolished slavery throughout the United States. After ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, how many African Americans served in Congress in the late 1800s?