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Impact of Reconstruction

Question 4 • EAP-Virginia and US History A CR

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 was significant because it

Answer
A
granted suffrage to all African American men.
B
gave all adult African Americans the right to vote.
C
made it illegal to deny the right to vote due to race.
D
granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States.

Explanation

The Reconstruction Act of 1867 required the former Confederate states to write new constitutions that allowed African American men to vote. This extended suffrage to Black men in those states during Reconstruction. Choice C describes the Fifteenth Amendment, which later prohibited denying the vote because of race; the Fourteenth Amendment addressed citizenship, as in choice D.

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