History homework

 

Directions: Each question needs at least two paragraphs of information to answer it and at least one to two paragraphs of critical thought to tell me what conclusions can be drawn about the event in question, or the historical significance of the event in question.

1. What events and movements prompted the federal government to redefine the standing of African Americans in American society between 1857 and 1877?

2. Which of these reforms were widely accepted and which were strongly resisted?

3. How did the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution affect the nations politics?

4. Why did the federal government abandon its pursuit of racial equality?