RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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To organize and pay for rebuilding the transportation and communication systems in the South
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To occupy Southern states with the US Army to ensure protection of rights for freed slaves
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To plan for readmitting Southern states to the US and assisting freed slaves with securing both civil and voting rights
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To develop a system of laws that would keep former slaves from using their rights
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Reconstruction Era lasted from the end of the Civil War in 1865 to 1877. Its main focus was on bringing the southern states back into full political participation in the Union, guaranteeing rights to former slaves and defining new relationships between African Americans and whites.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Reconstruction implemented by Congress, which lasted from 1866 to 1877, was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.
Detailed explanation-3: -The southern elite wanted to quickly rebuild the business of cotton production and thus retain their social standings and regain political control. They replaced the Slave Codes with the Black Codes; these laws were designed to keep the African American majority in a position of dependency.
Detailed explanation-4: -Lincoln’s blueprint for Reconstruction included the Ten-Percent Plan, which specified that a southern state could be readmitted into the Union once 10 percent of its voters (from the voter rolls for the election of 1860) swore an oath of allegiance to the Union.