RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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governors during the colonial era
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Reconstruction governments after the Civil War
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Patriots during the American Revolution
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revivalists after the Second Great Awakening
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Detailed explanation-1: -The establishment of public schools in the former slave-holding states owed much to African Americans’ commitment to education. In the former Confederate states, African Americans used their power as voters and legislators to create the frameworks for public education during the late 1860s and 1870s.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bishop James W. Hood (at left) is one of the Black political leaders who helped write North Carolina’s progressive 1868 state constitution that created the right to a free public education for all; he then served as a leader of the state’s new school system.
Detailed explanation-3: -Early 1864: President Lincoln begins Reconstruction in the Union-occupied former Confederate state of Louisiana. Lincoln’s lenient 10 percent policy upsets Radical Republicans, who expect the South to do more to gain readmission, and believe Lincoln’s approach does not provide enough protection to ex-slaves.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reconstruction refers to the period immediately after the Civil War from 1865 to 1877 when several United States administrations sought to reconstruct society in the former Confederate states in particular by establishing and protecting the legal rights of the newly freed black population.