RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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African-Americans still had not won the rights to vote by 1977.
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African-Americans had political rights in the North, not the South.
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African-Americans were represented in state assemblies, but on the national level.
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African-Americans won Congressional and state legislative representation from Southern States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: African Americans won Congressional and state legislative representation from Southern states is the correct answer. Over 600 seats in Southern legislatures went to African Americans in the 1870s, while 16 House and 2 Senate positions did.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rise of Black Activism During the first two years of Reconstruction, Black people organized Equal Rights Leagues throughout the South and held state and local conventions to protest discriminatory treatment and demand suffrage, as well as equality before the law.
Detailed explanation-3: -Which statement MOST ACCURATELY describes the political situation of African Americans in the period of Reconstruction? African Americans won Congressional and state legislative representation from Southern states.
Detailed explanation-4: -Men like Hiram Revels, Robert Elliot, and Joseph Rainey were part of the vanguard of black political leadership in this period.
Detailed explanation-5: -The aim of African Americans during Reconstruction was to reunite with their families and enjoy the freedom that had been denied to them for so long under slavery. Many left their plantations, but most soon returned to the land that they knew and wanted to work.