RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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participating in the Civil War
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ending racial discrimination
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passing Jim Crow laws
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seceding from the Union
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Detailed explanation-1: -") With the exception of Tennessee, the Southern states refused to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. The Republicans then passed the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which set the conditions the Southern states had to accept before they could be readmitted to the union, including ratification of the 14th Amendment.
Detailed explanation-2: -What was one reason the 14th and 15th amendments failed to prevent future racial segregation? Most Northern abolitionists opposed the extension of these rights. Radical Republicans in Congress stopped African Americans from voting. The Supreme Court refused to accept cases to interpret these amendments.
Detailed explanation-3: -EMANCIPATION AND RECONSTRUCTION In the North, black churches organized missions to the South to help newly freed persons find the skills and develop the talents that would allow them to lead independent lives.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.