RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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All of these are correct
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Their states were being placed under military control
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Ex-Confederate states were not allowed back into the Union until they ratified the Fourteenth Amendment
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Their constitutions were being re-written and ex-slaves were being given the right to vote
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Detailed explanation-1: -Radical Republicans wanted to punish the South for causing the Civil War. In order to ensure that the new state governments were committed to equality, the Radical Republicans split the South into five military districts, each headed by a northern general.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the 1870s continued, support for reconstruction throughout the country began to wane. The combination of white intimidation, a significant economic depression in the South, and the Democratic Party winning control of the House of Representatives in 1874, resulted in Reconstruction beginning to fade away.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Former Confederates approved of Presidential Reconstruction because it allowed them back into the Union. They disapproved of Radical Reconstruction because it did not want to allow them back into the Union.