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What the newly freed African Americans needed to do what after the war?
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Why were poll taxes created?
Mainly as a way of preventing poor people- especially newly freed blacks in the South after the Civil War- from voting. If you're poor and have little/no money, you're not going to want to spend that money to pay a special tax just to be able to vote.
Whose rights was the Fourteenth Amendment designed to protect?
(newly freed slaves)
What were supreme court decisions during the 1870s?
In the 1870â??s, the United State Supreme Court reached decisions that changed the way citizens were treated as well as the way the government was run. Following the end of the Civil War, newly freed slaves and other African-Americans were granted the same rights as all Americans and guaranteed protection under the law. States that had previously enjoyed more autonomy, were denied the power to define the rights of their citizens and new restrictions to the 14th amendment were applied.
Did Andrew Johnsom help newly freed slaves?
Andrew Johnson did nothing to help newly freed slaves. He was more concerned with helping White people who were hurt by the Civil War, especially Southerns. While Andrew Johnson was fulfilling President Abraham Lincoln's pledge to forgive the South after the war, he ignored everything President Lincoln wanted to do to help the newly freed slaves after the end of the war.
Why did the affranchis and french aristocrats decide to-leave haiti after its independence?
They feared revenge from the newly freed slaves.
What is newly freed African-Americans?
The term newly freed African Americans is used to describe former slaves that were no longer owned by anyone else. Slavery was abolished in the United States in the year 1865.
Why did many newly freed African Americans leave plantations?
100,000,000 because like a good poet wrote 100,000,000 newly freed African Americans leave plantations just like apples grow on trees
How did the forteenth amendment further help newly freed African Americans?
It gave them citizenship
New rights acquired by newly freed slaves?
African Americans gained voting rights,
True or false most newly freed African Americans voters supported the republican party?
true
What groups started the KKK?
Anyone who was radically racial and willing to scare the newly freed African Americans out of their wits.
How did the southern states prohibit African Americans from voting after Reconstruction ended?
they created poll taxes and literacy tests to stop African Americans from voting; the taxes succeeded because the newly freed African Americans had been forbidden to read as slaves, and had little, or no money to vote with.
How did the fourteenth amendment further help newly freed African Americans?
The 14th Amendment overruled the decision which had excluded slaves and their descendants from possessing Constitutional rights.
Newly freed African Americans urged the federal government to?
to Open colleges in the south ^that is wrong...and racist, blacks are educated lol the correct answer is Redistribute southern land
What practices in the South created difficulties for newly freed African Americans?
Segregation because of the black codes and Discrimination because of both black codes and Klu Klux Klan
What region used poll tax?
Some states in southern United States used the poll tax to keep newly freed African-Americans from voting.
Why was holding political office so important to newly freed African Americans?
By voting & holding office Blacks helped rewrite Southern state constitutions and other basic laws to replace the black codes.
