Reading Lesson, Chapter 15: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 Short Writing

Prompt
A)Analyze the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the lives of African Americans in the South socially, politically and economically.

B) In what ways did their situation represent continuities from the pre-Civil War period?

Reconstruction

Explanation:

A. The main goal was to try to correct the Southern states' politics, economic, and social. The Reconstruction policies tried to give rights to the former slaves in the South with the rectification of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

B. Reconstruction often fails to protect the African American freed slaves in the South.  Southern Whites stopped them from voting, which threatened their political rights often led to discrimination. The South issued sets of Black Codes called Jim Crow Laws to separate African Americans from the whites.

regarding the law, the 15th amendment was specifically designed thinking in the rights of black free men.

even though ratified on february 3, 1870, the promise of the 15th amendment would not be fully applied for a long time.poll taxes and literacy tests would allow southern states disenfranchise african americans. only in 1965 the voting rights for african americans would be actually able to vote in the south.

in 1965, president johnson signed the voting rights act, which aimed to overcome legal barriers that prevented african americans from voting as it was guaranteed by the 15th amendment to the u.s. constitution.

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