Question

Why do historians like Eric Foner emphasize the long-term significance of the Civil War Amendments (Reconstruction Amendments)?

Answer 1

They were central to establishing and protecting rights for freedmen during Reconstruction.
Their success was limited by state governments, but they were the basis for later civil rights activism.
The amendments led to services such as public schools and legal aid that would not exist otherwise.
The amendments had little impact beyond ending slavery, but they remain part of the Constitution.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

They got the ideas of full citizenship into the Constitution. A hundred years later they were still there to make the civil rights movement possible

Answer 4

so the first answer?

Answer 5

@wwhitlock thats what i thought

Answer 6

Read closer. Long term in the question. Later in answer B.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Thanks you is the best answer. You medaled!

Answer 9

Can you help me on another one @wwhitlock ?

"The attempt to make black men American citizens was in a certain sense all a failure, but a splendid failure."—W.E.B. DuBois (1868–1963), African American historian and activist

To which of the following aspects of Radical Reconstruction does the excerpt refer?

Answer 10

14th Amendment
Military rule
Black Codes
13th Amendment

Answer 11

I think it is A

Answer 12

sorry? @wwhitlock

Answer 13

DuBois saw the Amendments and other Reconstruction efforts as good. But his experience was that of a black man after Reconstruction stopped and Plessy v Fergusen allowed all sorts laws from the states that defeated the intent. Those laws were called Black Codes of Jim Crow.