History A-Level
Civil Rights and racial inequality
What Civil Rights and racial inequality means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Johnson's leniency allowed Southern states to enact oppressive Black Codes in 1865–66, and after the withdrawal of federal troops Southern states established Jim Crow laws and restored white supremacy.
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- 1K The making of a Superpower: USA, 1865–1975 – The Era of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1890 (AQA A-Level)
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