It also made Confederate states ratify the 13th and 14th Amendment before they could re-enter the Union, and established African American voting rights. By 1868 seven Confederate states had been accepted back into the Union. The Freedmen’s Bureau at this point had helped freedmen gain an education, gave them jobs in building roads, and helped them establish civil rights groups. In 1870 Congress passed the 15th Amendment granting all African Americans the right to vote no matter what state they were in, and it allowed the government to use military force to protect these rights against groups like the KKK. The Reconstruction Revolution ended in 1972 and the Reconstruction Counter Revolution began. Due to the economic crash in 1873, multiple scandals during the Ulysses Grant presidency, the growth of critics towards reconstruction, and successful anti-Reconstruction propaganda campaigns Congress shutdown their Reconstruction efforts after all the Confederate states had been brought back into the Union. After this Democrats began to take back Congress from the Republicans and Reconstruction was finally
It also made Confederate states ratify the 13th and 14th Amendment before they could re-enter the Union, and established African American voting rights. By 1868 seven Confederate states had been accepted back into the Union. The Freedmen’s Bureau at this point had helped freedmen gain an education, gave them jobs in building roads, and helped them establish civil rights groups. In 1870 Congress passed the 15th Amendment granting all African Americans the right to vote no matter what state they were in, and it allowed the government to use military force to protect these rights against groups like the KKK. The Reconstruction Revolution ended in 1972 and the Reconstruction Counter Revolution began. Due to the economic crash in 1873, multiple scandals during the Ulysses Grant presidency, the growth of critics towards reconstruction, and successful anti-Reconstruction propaganda campaigns Congress shutdown their Reconstruction efforts after all the Confederate states had been brought back into the Union. After this Democrats began to take back Congress from the Republicans and Reconstruction was finally