How Did African Americans End Up Paying the Heaviest Price

question 4

Multiple Choice

How did African Americans end up paying the heaviest price for the sectional reunion after Reconstruction?

• A) African Americans lost an enormous amount of wealth and property during Reconstruction and by the end were reduced to poverty.
• B) Congress made no efforts to address the rights of African Americans in their attempts to repair the damaged South during Reconstruction.
• C) Although African Americans saw signs of equal rights at the start of Reconstruction, once it ended many of these rights were not enforced.
• D) Many laws were passed by Congress during Reconstruction that deliberately restricted the rights of newly freed slaves.
• E) African Americans who left the South for the North after the Civil War found that their rights became restricted as Reconstruction progressed.

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