Congressional Reconstruction in the South enabled the majority of Blacks to experience freedom but not the benefits of _________. The collapse of Congressional Reconstruction helped perpetuate the long-standing discrimination against African Americas. Oppressive systems such as sharecropping and __________, which Republicans attempted to counteract through the formation of _________ throughout the former Confederacy, persisted during and after Reconstruction. However, some of the failures of the Reconstruction era laid the groundwork for the civil rights movement nearly a century later.

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