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The poll tax was proof that tax payments were made. Poll taxes were required in many Southern states in order to vote.
The federal government controlled the Confederate states during Reconstruction.
In 1870 President Hays made a deal to remove federal troops from the southern states. This changed reconstruction and allowed the south to begin the Jim Crow laws that would create segregation and discrimination for another 100 years. Had reconstruction been allowed to continue the southern states may have not developed as they did, but we will never know.
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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.
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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It basically sucked slaves basically were not free.
African Americans remained disenfranchised
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Southern states passed racist Jim Crow Laws that limited African American freedoms and restricted many of the rights they had received under Reconstruction.