What was a positive long-term impact of Radical Reconstruction on the South?A.Women were given the right to vote.B.Confederate l
eaders never again held elected office.C.Public education systems were established for students of all races.D.The South remained divided into five districts governed by martial law.
The first three of these postwar amendments the most radical and most rapid social and political change in American history the abolition of slavery (13 th) and the granting of equal citizenship (14 th) and voting rights (15 th) to former slaves all within a period of 5 years.