RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform
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The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War
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The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Approved by the 39th Congress (1865–1867) in June 1868 and ratified by the states on July 9, 1868. On this date, the House of Representatives approved the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, a landmark addition that established guarantees of citizenship and equal protection under the law.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some southern states began actively passing laws that restricted the rights of former slaves after the Civil War, and Congress responded with the 14th Amendment, designed to place limits on states’ power as well as protect civil rights.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Reconstruction Act of 1867 outlined the terms for readmission to representation of rebel states. The bill divided the former Confederate states, except for Tennessee, into five military districts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Southern states also resisted, but Congress required them to ratify the 13th and 14th Amendments as a condition of regaining representation in Congress, and the ongoing presence of the Union Army in the former Confederate states ensured their compliance.