Following the U.S. Civil War, the Radical Republicans attempted to put a land reform through Congress, promising, 40 acres and a mule, to newly-freed blacks in the South, which was rejected by moderate elements as socialistic. This failure left blacks without an economic base, and was one of the key contributing factors to the development of sharecropping and segregation<
Actions that would be prevented by the First Amendment of the US Constitution would be acts that violate rights that include the freedom of religion, speech, petition, press, and peaceful assembly. Examples of actions that violate this amendment would be preventing a certain group of people from practicing their religion, not allowing free and peaceful protest of a situation, not allowing people to speak out their own ideas, and etc.
