The position of African Americans after the American Civil War

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What happened as a result of the 13th Amendment?
Made 4 million former African American slaves into freedmen.
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What was 'sharecropping'?
Where landlords allowed their former slaves to work the land for a share of the produce.
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President Andrew Johnson was unsympathetic towards African Americans, however.....
Congress was dominated by Republicans who wanted to carry out reforms to help the African Americans.
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What reforms did Congress make?
Freedemens Bureau, 14th and 15th Amendments, Civil Rights Act and the First Reconstruction Act.
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What did the Freedmen's Bureau do?
Promoted welfare and education.
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What were the 14th and 15th Amendments?
Amendments added to the constitution, outlawing discrimination.
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What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
An act giving legal equality.
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What was the First Reconstruction Act of 1867?
An Act that guaranteed the right to vote and created new Southern constitutions.
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How many Africans American deaths were there in Louisiana in 1868 as a result of white violence?
2000
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What was the Hayes-Tilden Compromise of 1877?
unwritten deal that settled the intensely disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election. It resulted in the United States federal government pulling the last troops out of the South, and formally ended the Reconstruction Era.
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