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Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
African Americans remained disenfranchised
They were fighting for Southern Independence and the Rights of the States..
through the reconstruction process.
President Andrew Jackson's Reconstruction granted freedom and political rights to the slaves and gave them opportunities to acquire land. But the State Legislatures in the Southern States almost immediately established so-called "black codes" in their States, severely limiting these rights and practically preventing blacks to find work as paid labourers.
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Black Codes
the black codes
by enacting jim crow laws
Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
A scalawag was a term used during the Reconstruction era in the United States to describe Southern whites who supported the Republican Party and its policies of promoting civil rights and rebuilding the South after the Civil War. They were often seen as traitors by other Southerners who opposed Reconstruction.
The New State Constitution was successful during Reconstruction. It made the southern states write new laws that outlawed slavery. former slaves feared less of the southern states.
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Black codes
Southern states implemented a variety of tactics to circumvent the 14th Amendment during the Reconstruction Era. They enacted black codes, which restricted the rights of former slaves, imposed poll taxes and literacy tests to disenfranchise African Americans, and sometimes resorted to violence and intimidation to prevent them from exercising their newly granted rights. These measures effectively undermined the intent of the 14th Amendment in the South.
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It basically sucked slaves basically were not free.