What was the impact of Reconstruction on civil rights?
It provided women with the right to vote in the 1868 election through the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
It provided the legislation for equal civil rights, but those rights were typically bypassed through local legislation.
It ended forever the inability for African Americans to vote for representatives on the national and local levels.
It established the creation of western territories for newly freed African Americans to settle and have their own governments.
B?
Yes. B.
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No, B is not the correct answer. The correct answer is A: It provided women with the right to vote in the 1868 election through the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
To arrive at this answer, let's look at each option:
A. It provided women with the right to vote in the 1868 election through the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. - This option correctly states that Reconstruction provided women with the right to vote through the Fourteenth Amendment. This amendment, ratified in 1868, granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which included women. However, it's worth noting that the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 specifically granted women the right to vote.
B. It provided the legislation for equal civil rights, but those rights were typically bypassed through local legislation. - This option is incorrect. While Reconstruction aimed to secure civil rights for freed slaves, the reality was that many of those rights were undermined or bypassed through the implementation of local legislation known as Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
C. It ended forever the inability for African Americans to vote for representatives on the national and local levels. - This option is incorrect. Although Reconstruction did grant African Americans the right to vote and hold political office, the end of Reconstruction saw the erosion of these rights through tactics such as violence, intimidation, and discriminatory laws.
D. It established the creation of western territories for newly freed African Americans to settle and have their own governments. - This option is incorrect. While the idea of creating new territories for African Americans had been proposed during Reconstruction, it was not successfully implemented.
Therefore, the correct answer is A. It provided women with the right to vote in the 1868 election through the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.