How were social groups in the South impacted by Reconstruction Amendments?

Following Reconstruction, Southern state governments systematically stripped African- Americans of their basic political and civil rights.  Many freedmen, lacking a formal education, could not pass these reading and writing tests. As a result, they were banned from voting.

federal power is further limited with a system of checks and balances that gives each branch of government a measure of power over the others.

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