What was the most important things or facts about the Reconstruction time?

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What was the most important things or facts about the Reconstruction time ,when the Civil War had ended.

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There was absolutely fierce resistance to letting blacks vote or to have a public education. Directly after the Civil War, South Carolina had a majority black population. They promptly raised property taxes, because they desperately wanted schools, and the only available source of funds was property taxes (schools are still largely funded by property taxes). This so enraged people across the South that they attacked black voters at the polling booths, burned down their houses, and then passed the awful Jim Crow system of laws, which made the theft of a chicken a felony punishable by 5 years hard labor, and which disenfranchised blacks by making people pay a tax to vote and pass a literacy test. Slavery was replaced by tenant farming, in which tenants borrow seed from the land owner and repay him from the harvest. The landowners were a corrupt lot who often shortchanged the farmers, most of whom were ignorant of math and contracts. The South's virulent racism poisoned the whole country.

The most important facts are hard to identify. So many various changes took place during Reconstruction. Here's a chronological list of some of the most important.

Reconstruction: 1865-1877
1. 14th Amendment- Granted citizenship and Due Process regardless of race
2. Formation of KKK
3. Freedman's Bureau- Attempted to help w/ African-Americans plight
4. Civil Rights Act of 1866
5. Johnson's Impeechment- He vetoed most Republican reforms intended to help freedmen
6. 15 Admendment- Gave African Americans right to vote
7. Compromise of 1877

The Reconstructon was a 12 year struggle to determine the direction for the southern states. Mainly the goals were to determine who controlled southern state governments and what were the rights of newly freedmen. Reconstruction ended with the presedential compromise of 1877. The compromised allowed the "redeemers" ,who were southern white men seeking control of state gov, to regain control and for the north to withdraw all federal troops. In exchange, southern democrats would not contest the election of Rep. Hayes. Hayes won the electoral vote: however, Dem. Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote. Neither side wanted to risk another civil war. Effectively, the North left southern African-Americans to struggle alone. As a result, the south instituted segregration and many other forms of instituionalized racism.

I would consider the 15th amendment the most effective. Whites terrorized blacks for many years and prevented their political involvement. Eventually, 100 years later, African-Americans were able to use their vote to begin fighting inequality.

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What was the most important things or facts about the Reconstruction time?
What was the most important things or facts about the Reconstruction time ,when the Civil War had ended.

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The most important facts are hard to identify. So many various changes took place during Reconstruction. Here's a chronological list of some of the most important.

Reconstruction: 1865-1877
1. 14th Amendment- Granted citizenship and Due Process regardless of race
2. Formation of KKK
3. Freedman's Bureau- Attempted to help w/ African-Americans plight
4. Civil Rights Act of 1866
5. Johnson's Impeechment- He vetoed most Republican reforms intended to help freedmen
6. 15 Admendment- Gave African Americans right to vote
7. Compromise of 1877

The Reconstructon was a 12 year struggle to determine the direction for the southern states. Mainly the goals were to determine who controlled southern state governments and what were the rights of newly freedmen. Reconstruction ended with the presedential compromise of 1877. The compromised allowed the "redeemers" ,who were southern white men seeking control of state gov, to regain control and for the north to withdraw all federal troops. In exchange, southern democrats would not contest the election of Rep. Hayes. Hayes won the electoral vote: however, Dem. Samuel Tilden had won the popular vote. Neither side wanted to risk another civil war. Effectively, the North left southern African-Americans to struggle alone. As a result, the south instituted segregration and many other forms of instituionalized racism.

I would consider the 15th amendment the most effective. Whites terrorized blacks for many years and prevented their political involvement. Eventually, 100 years later, African-Americans were able to use their vote to begin fighting inequality.

I hope this helps.

Answer 6

There was absolutely fierce resistance to letting blacks vote or to have a public education. Directly after the Civil War, South Carolina had a majority black population. They promptly raised property taxes, because they desperately wanted schools, and the only available source of funds was property taxes (schools are still largely funded by property taxes). This so enraged people across the South that they attacked black voters at the polling booths, burned down their houses, and then passed the awful Jim Crow system of laws, which made the theft of a chicken a felony punishable by 5 years hard labor, and which disenfranchised blacks by making people pay a tax to vote and pass a literacy test. Slavery was replaced by tenant farming, in which tenants borrow seed from the land owner and repay him from the harvest. The landowners were a corrupt lot who often shortchanged the farmers, most of whom were ignorant of math and contracts. The South's virulent racism poisoned the whole country.

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