which selection from the article BEST supports the idea that African-American culture changed during Reconstruction? (A) They ga
ve them few civil rights and rejected social equality for blacks. African-Americans, on the other hand, wanted full freedom and, above all, land of their own. (B) They quietly left white churches and formed their own religious organizations, which became centers for the African-American community. (C) However, the sharecropping system ensured the continued poverty of African-Americans in the South and blacks' dependence on white bosses for employment. (D) There were no black governors, only two black senators and a handful of congressmen, and only South Carolina had a legislature controlled by blacks.
Answer: (B) They quietly left white churches and formed their own religious organizations, which became centers for the African-American community.
Explanation:
In the Reconstruction era, African Americans had more freedom than before due to the presence of Federal soldiers which enforced the new amendments giving African Americans freedoms as America citizens.
One of the things the African Americans did was to start their own churches. These were considered the first institution Black people could control for their own selves and so they became an integral part of black culture and they still are today.
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