RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ELECTION OF 1876
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Question
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It upheld the 15 Amendment, ensuring all citizens could vote.
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It ensured that poor, illiterate whites could still vote.
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It allowed only white landowners to vote.
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It allowed women whose grandfathers had voted to participate.
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Detailed explanation-1: -It provided that those who had enjoyed the right to vote prior to 1866 or 1867, and their lineal descendants, would be exempt from recently enacted educational, property, or tax requirements for voting.
Detailed explanation-2: -Poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, whites-only primaries, and other measures disproportionately disqualified African Americans from voting. The result was that by the early 20th century nearly all African Americans were disfranchised.
Detailed explanation-3: -What was the main effect of the grandfather clauses and literacy tests put in place in the South at the end of the 19th century? African American voters were disenfranchised. What was the main effect of the Jim Crow system? It undermined the civil rights that African Americans had gained during Reconstruction.