Question

What was not one of the successes of the Reconstruction era A- southern states were reincorporated into the union. B-constitutional amendments abolished slavery and protected legal rights of African-american C- African American achieved economic equality with whites in the south D- Social programs and public education became available to African Americans

Answer 1

Answer: the correct answer is C. African American achieved economic equality with whites in the south.

Explanation:

One of failures of the Reconstruction era was that the African American didn't achieve economic equality with whites in the south. The problem was that the states in the south enacted terrible discriminating laws called the Black Codes. These were laws passed in 1865 and 1866 by Southern states in the United States after the American Civil War in order to restrict African Americans' freedom, and to compel them to work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt. Black Codes were part of a larger pattern of Southern whites trying to maintain political dominance and suppress the freedmen, newly emancipated African-American slaves. Black codes were essentially replacements for slave codes in those states. Before the war, some states that had prohibited slavery also enacted Black Codes: northern states such as Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and New York enacted laws to discourage free blacks from residing in those states. They were denied equal political rights, including the right to vote, the right to public education, and the right to equal treatment under the law. Some of the northern states repealed such laws around the same time that the Civil War ended and slavery was abolished by constitutional amendment.