In March 1867, Congress began Radical Reconstruction by adopting the ________, which created new state governments and provided for black male suffrage in the South.

A) Fourteenth Amendment
B) Fifteenth Amendment
C) Civil Rights Act of 1867
D) Sumner-Stevens Act
E) Reconstruction Act

Radical Reconstruction

A period after the American Civil War, marked by severe measures to integrate and protect the rights of formerly enslaved African Americans in the Southern states.

Black Male Suffrage

The right of black men to vote, especially significant in the context of post-Civil War America with the passage of the 15th Amendment.

Reconstruction Act

Legislation passed after the Civil War aimed at rebuilding and integrating the Southern states back into the Union, including provisions for civil rights of the freed slaves.