RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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They increased political participation as voting rights expanded to include African American women.
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They gained economic equality as sharecropping increased in popularity and cotton farming became profitable.
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They received better schools when the Supreme Court ruled that public facilities must be separate but equal.
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They lost political power as southern states passed laws to negate gains made through the 14th and 15th Amendments.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Blacks had gained more rights. The Thirteenth Amendment banned slavery in the country. The Fourteenth Amendment said that blacks in the country were now citizens. Blacks also had gained the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-2: -Serving an expanded citizenry, Reconstruction governments established the South’s first state-funded public school systems, sought to strengthen the bargaining power of plantation labourers, made taxation more equitable, and outlawed racial discrimination in public transportation and accommodations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Black Southerners had more political and economic freedom. How did Southern blacks lose rights in the years after the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments? Some white Southerners used state legislation, segregation, and violence to limit the freedoms of blacks.
Detailed explanation-4: -These amendments were intended to guarantee the freedom of the former slaves and grant certain civil rights to them and protect the former slaves and all citizens of the United States from discrimination.