African Americans
African American were not allowed to vote.
African American slaves enjoyed a period when they were allowed to vote. :-)
The "franchise" is the right to vote; to "disenfranchise" means to deny someone the right to vote. In the south after the war, during reconstruction, white men generally were not allowed to vote, and the freed slaves were allowed to vote. As soon as reconstruction was over whites regained political power and though various laws (poll taxes, literacy tests) again disenfranchised the blacks. (No women could vote until 1920).
During Reconstruction, the governments of the Southern states were removed and new elections were held where black people were allowed to vote.
What laws were passed during the reconstruction?
Radical Republicans rewrote the Reconstruction and Force acts. These were to block blacks from being allowed to vote during elections.
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They could not vote if their grandfather had not been allowed to vote.
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they were unable to take an oath that they had been loyal to the union
During Reconstruction, the constitutional question the government was concerned about was giving African Americans the right to vote. They were also concerned about their civil rights.