Provide TWO ways that Reconstruction-era reforms impacted African Americans socially and TWO ways they impacted them economically in the late-1800s.

TWO ways that Reconstruction-era reforms impacted African Americans socially and TWO ways they impacted them economically in the late-1800s.

Explanation:

Reconstruction-era reforms impacted African Americans socially as the Freedman's Bureau was created to help new freed African Americans adjust to freedom.  They helped them register marriages, negotiated labor contracts and built more than 3,000 schools along with trained teachers. Three Amendments were added to the constitution, 13th outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, 14th established that al persons born in the US are citizens, 15th prohibited states from denying the right to vote based on race pr previous condition of servitude. African Americans participated in Reconstruction governments.  They were elected to state, local and national positions.

Economically, they were weakened as crops had been destroyed, land had been left unattended with the Civil War and much of the infrastructure had been damaged. This changed the labor system and brought in sharecropping, tenant farming which trapped African Americans in to a cycle of debt.  They were essentially tied to the farm as laws made it difficult for sharecroppers to sell their own cotton and the contracts and laws favored the landlords. This brought on Jim Crow laws and established legal segregation.

the quote by walter cronkite contributes to the central idea of the text by supporting the central idea. cronkite argues that what is deemed “right” for and in america may not be good for other countries. this supports the central idea of the text, that the vietnam war was unpopular in america for multiple reasons- including cronkite’s.

the vast majority of ballots have been counted nearly two weeks after one of the biggest political upsets in modern u.s. history catapulted donald trump to the presidency.

estimates show more than 58 percent of eligible voters went to the polls during the 2016 election, nearly breaking even with the turnout rate set during the last presidential election in 2012, even as the final tallies in states like california continue to be calculated, according to statistics collected by the u.s. elections project.

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while clinton is leading the popular vote by more than 1.5 million over trump as of sunday, she trails president obama’s 2012 totals by more than 2 million ballots — a chasm that may have cost her the election, said david becker, co-founder of the center for election and innovation and research.

“several million voters didn’t come out to vote,” becker said. “which is telling me that this idea of the trump wave, a huge number of voters shifting over to trump, is certainly not the story.”