Most African-Americans in the South made their living as sharecroppers and were poor. Reconstruction protected their right to vote and to seek public office.
The racial tensions were increased because of Reconstruction. Whites thought the Freedman's Bureau would give Blacks handouts and make them lazy. During Reconstruction Southerners created the Black codes as a way to stifle any progress that Blacks attempted to make.
When federal troops left in 1877
The South resisted reconstruction by passing special laws, like the Black Codes and the Jim Crow laws, in order to keep blacks down in a status practically the same as slavery.
President Hayes kept removes troops from the South. The order was given on May 1st, 1877. The decision to end Reconstruction and return the rule to Southerners, soon resulted in the disenfranchisement of the Blacks in the South.
Republicans
becausee they wanted to have freedom of their own
Helped out blacks
Both.
one way reconstruction was a failure is that the freedman bureau burn down the blacks school, meaning no freedom what so ever for the blacks.
Which former Confederate state had the most blacks holding office during Reconstruction
Republican abandoned reconstruction of the south. Democrats were racist therefore promises made for the freed blacks were in fulfilled.
Blacks had the right to vote.
THe Black Church
Exodusters
blacks and whites who supported blacks (mainly)
The most important institution for blacks after Reconstruction was undoubtedly the black church. Churches gave black people a place all of their own, free from the control of whites.
President Andrew Jackson restricted African American rights during reconstruction. Blacks were excluded from southern politics. Radical Reconstruction occurred from 1867 to 1877