Isaiah Vargas - Question 3

For African Americans in the South after the Civil War, what help did they receive? What challenges did they face?

 The Union victory in the Civil War in 1865 may have given some 4 million slaves their freedom, but the process of rebuilding the South during the Reconstruction period introduced a new set of significant challenges. new southern state legislatures passed restrictive “black codes” to control the labor and behavior of former slaves and other African Americans. Outrage in the North over these codes eroded support for the approach known as Presidential Reconstruction and led to the triumph of the more radical wing of the Republican Party.

The African Americans weren't treated too differently after the Civil War ended. They were not slaves anymore, but they were still treated as second-class citizens. They still weren't allowed to vote or get better jobs. It took about 100 years for them to be treated equally.

Sources

http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/reconstruction

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_were_Africans_Americans_being_treated_after_the_civil_war_ended