How did African Americans end up paying the heaviest price for the sectional reunion after Reconstruction?
a. African Americans lost an enormous amount of wealth and property during Reconstruction and by the end were reduced to poverty.
b. Congress made no efforts to address the rights of African Americans in their attempts to repair the damaged South during Reconstruction.
c. Although African Americans saw signs of equal rights at the start of Reconstruction, once it ended many of these rights were not enforceable.
d. Many laws were passed by Congress during Reconstruction that deliberately restricted the rights of newly freed slaves.
e. African Americans who left the South for the North after the Civil War found that their rights there were slowly being restricted as Reconstruction progressed.
C
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