RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They were elected and held public office.
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They made many inventions including a steamboat propeller.
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They worked as social activists to help women get the right to vote.
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They worked as social activities to help workers have good paying jobs and safe working conditions.
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They created secret societies that used violence to exact revenge on former slave owners.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Men like Hiram Revels, Robert Elliot, and Joseph Rainey were part of the vanguard of black political leadership in this period.
Detailed explanation-2: -African Americans actively took up the rights, opportunities, and responsibilities of citizenship. During Reconstruction, seven hundred African American men served in elected public office, among them two United States Senators, and fourteen members of the United States House of Representatives.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances in the textile industry, did not mean progress. It meant slavery. From 1790 to 1810, close to 100, 000 slaves moved to the new cotton lands to the south and west.