They were enraged by the southern defiance and resistance against Reconstruction
With indifference it wasn't until later that legislature started to pass laws about the treatment of African Americans.
African-Americans slowly lost their rights after Reconstruction in America.
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they had the most African American members in their state legislature.
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African Americans remained disenfranchised
Southern states passed racist Jim Crow Laws that limited African American freedoms and restricted many of the rights they had received under Reconstruction.
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
They had the most African American members in their state legislature.
congress overturned johnsons vetoes on major reconstruction legislation
Mississippi and South Carolina
No. They passed them to separate whites from blacks and keep African-Americans in an inferior social and economic position.
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.
They provided protections for African Americans (apex)
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.