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Black Codes
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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.
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.
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The four Reconstruction Acts, passed by Congress in 1867, were known as the First Reconstruction Act, the Second Reconstruction Act, the Third Reconstruction Act, and the Fourth Reconstruction Act. These acts aimed to establish military governance in the Southern states, ensure the civil rights of freedmen, and set the conditions for re-admittance of the Southern states into the Union. They required states to create new constitutions guaranteeing voting rights to African American men and to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Radicals during Reconstruction referred to members of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party, who advocated for strong measures to secure civil rights and political representation for freed slaves in the South after the Civil War. They pushed for the Reconstruction Acts, which aimed to impose federal control over Southern states and enforce the rights of African Americans. Their efforts included supporting the 14th and 15th Amendments, which granted citizenship and voting rights to former slaves. Radicals faced significant opposition from Southern whites and moderate Republicans, leading to a contentious political landscape during the Reconstruction era.
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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