Which former Confederate state had the most blacks holding office during Reconstruction
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The federal government controlled the Confederate states during Reconstruction.
The biggest most resounding accomplishments for blacks during reconstruction were the adoption of Constitutional Amendments. These amendments were the 13th, 14th and 15th. Respectively they gave blacks, in order, abolition of slavery; guarantee of citizenship to the United States and granting civil rights and the right to vote.
Its failure to provide blacks with farm property of their own
Reconstruction means rebuilding. During the Civil War, much of the South was destroyed. Reconstruction was rebuilding AFTER the war- both physical rebuilding, and rebuilding the government in the former Confederate States.
the KKK killed blacks who stood up for their rights so all blacks were afraid to stand up for their rights