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Q:
Explain why and how the role of the federal government changed as a result of the Civil War with respect to the following during the period 1861-1877:
Race relations
Economic development
Westward expansion
APUSH question
Role of Federal Gov't after Civil War
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Preview: ... after three-fifths compromise repealed
¨     Congressional Radical Reconstruction (1867-1877)
Freedmenâs Bureau established
tries to conciliate Confederates with blacks
assists blacks in rebuilding lives
stops short of land redistribution
Civil Rights Act of 1866
gave blacks full legal equality
14 th amendment
extended citizenship to blacks
Reconstruction Act of 1867
divided former Confederate states into 5 military districts
states had to ratify 14 th , let black men vote and call new Constitutional conventions to be readmitted to Union
15 th amendment
extended suffrage to all men
Enforcement Acts
enforced civil rights acts and amendment
federal response to KKK terrorism
Civil Rights Act of 18 ...
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