RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
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A They did not care about programs for the blind and deaf.
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B They disliked the economic burden of more taxes.
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C They distrusted African American leadership.
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D Both B and C
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Detailed explanation-1: -Reconstruction in the state of South Carolina was unique compared to other southern states due to heavy political involvement of both] and newly freed African American slaves. Land ownership was seen as an important aspect of freedom for African-Americans in South Carolina.
Detailed explanation-2: -After 1867, an increasing number of southern whites turned to violence in response to the revolutionary changes of Radical Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist organizations targeted local Republican leaders, white and Black, and other African Americans who challenged white authority.
Detailed explanation-3: -The most difficult task confronting many Southerners during Reconstruction was devising a new system of labor to replace the shattered world of slavery. The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -Southern Republicans sought to modernize the South by building railroads and providing free public education and other social services. The Reconstruction governments drew up democratic state constitutions, expanded women’s rights, provided debt relief, and established the South’s first state-funded schools.