Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be sure to include at least two specific details from the lesson to support your response.
1.Which type of change—political, social, or economic—had the most impact on Southern life?
2.Which type of change—political, social, or economic—faced the most challenges? Why were Southerners against this type of change?
3.For the first hundred years of the United States, only white males were able to vote. Since then, amendments to the Constitution have made it so that any citizen aged 18 or older can vote.

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Answer the following questions in complete sentences. Be sure to include at least two specific details from the lesson to support your response.
1.Which type of change—political, social, or economic—had the most impact on Southern life? 
2.Which type of change—political, social, or economic—faced the most challenges? Why were Southerners against this type of change?
3.For the first hundred years of the United States, only white males were able to vote. Since then, amendments to the Constitution have made it so that any citizen aged 18 or older can vote.

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Why were amendments needed to expand voting rights?

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By now, you should understand some of the important events and controversies that took place following the Civil War. You learned about Reconstruction, the 15th Amendment, the election of 1876, Jim Crow laws, and racial tension in the lesson.

Think about how these events impacted the South. Consider not only the changes that took place during Reconstruction but also the challenges to those changes and how long the effects of the changes lasted.