RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA
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Question
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Why did the government of S.C. create the eight box law?
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to create eight seats on the S.C. Supreme Court
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to prevent many African Americans from voting
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to create eight political districts
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to limit the amount of cotton farmers could grow
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era in the United States, especially in the Southern United States, was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.
Detailed explanation-2: -It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.
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