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Who were the two southern states with the largest number of African Americans serving in the state government during reconstruction?
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Why did freedom for Americans become a distant dream after Reconstruction ended?
As Reconstruction ended, African Americans' dreams for justice faded. Laws passed by the redeemer governments denied Southern African Americans many of their newly won rights.
Which were the two southern states with the largest number of African Americans serving in state during reconstruction?
Mississippi and South Carolina
When reconstruction ended did the southern states pass the Jim krowe law to help African Americans?
No. They passed them to separate whites from blacks and keep African-Americans in an inferior social and economic position.
What were The immediate and long-term effects of the Reconstruction?
Some of the immediate effects of American reconstruction were the end of slavery, a change of government in the South to disallow Confederate politicians, and the drop of the southern economy because of the lack of slave labor. Longer-term effects included African-Americans gaining the right to vote, long-lasting racial tensions, and the growth of communities that had mostly or all African-Americans.
What did members of southern states to limit the rights of African Americans during reconstruction?
by enacting jim crow laws
Republican governments in the southern states during reconstruction were unpopular because?
African Americans remained disenfranchised
What nickname was given to people from southern states that supported reconstruction laws that helped African Americans?
Scalawag
At the end of the reconstruction southern whites disenfranchised African Americans with?
laws such as poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses, which effectively prevented African Americans from voting. This disenfranchisement was a way for southern whites to maintain their power and control over political and social institutions in the post-reconstruction era.
What did the end of reconstruction have on African Americans?
Southern states passed racist Jim Crow Laws that limited African American freedoms and restricted many of the rights they had received under Reconstruction.
What did congress take to support southern African Americans?
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
Why did freedom for Americans become a distant dream after Reconstruction ended?
As Reconstruction ended, African Americans' dreams for justice faded. Laws passed by the redeemer governments denied Southern African Americans many of their newly won rights.
What action did congress take to support southern African Americans?
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
Which were the two southern states with the largest number of African Americans serving in state during reconstruction?
Mississippi and South Carolina
When reconstruction ended did the southern states pass the Jim krowe law to help African Americans?
No. They passed them to separate whites from blacks and keep African-Americans in an inferior social and economic position.
What were the immediate and long-term effects of Reconstruction?
Which two southern states had the largest number of African Americans serving in state legislature during Reconstruction?
Mississippi and South Carolina
Have African Americans once given the right to vote ever belong to the Republican Party?
When African Americans were first guaranteed the right to vote during Reconstruction, most of them voted for Republican candidates. This was because Southern Whites who were against Reconstruction mostly belonged to the Democratic Party.
