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    African Americans faced significant social, political, and economic limitations from 1865 to 1900. Socially, they faced discrimination in employment, public spaces, marriage, education, and were subject to Jim Crow laws. Politically, especially in the South, African Americans were prevented from exercising voting rights through intimidation by groups like the KKK and use of literacy tests and poll taxes. Economically, most African Americans had limited options beyond sharecropping and tenant farming due to lack of land ownership and poverty, maintaining a system of cheap labor.

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    African Americans faced significant social, political, and economic limitations from 1865 to 1900. Socially, they faced discrimination in employment, public spaces, marriage, education, and were subject to Jim Crow laws. Politically, especially in the South, African Americans were prevented from exercising voting rights through intimidation by groups like the KKK and use of literacy tests and poll taxes. Economically, most African Americans had limited options beyond sharecropping and tenant farming due to lack of land ownership and poverty, maintaining a system of cheap labor.

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    African Americans faced significant social, political, and economic limitations from 1865 to 1900. Socially, they faced discrimination in employment, public spaces, marriage, education, and were subject to Jim Crow laws. Politically, especially in the South, African Americans were prevented from exercising voting rights through intimidation by groups like the KKK and use of literacy tests and poll taxes. Economically, most African Americans had limited options beyond sharecropping and tenant farming due to lack of land ownership and poverty, maintaining a system of cheap labor.

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    African Americans faced significant social, political, and economic limitations from 1865 to 1900. Socially, they faced discrimination in employment, public spaces, marriage, education, and were subject to Jim Crow laws. Politically, especially in the South, African Americans were prevented from exercising voting rights through intimidation by groups like the KKK and use of literacy tests and poll taxes. Economically, most African Americans had limited options beyond sharecropping and tenant farming due to lack of land ownership and poverty, maintaining a system of cheap labor.

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    Question: "Explain how freedoms for African Americans were socially,

    politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900?"

    African Americans were heavily persecuted during this time period in the late 1880s as
    they faced various obstacles that threatened their social, political and economic
    freedoms.

    Social Limitations

    African Americans could rarely get jobs, and even more sparingly was equal pay. They
    were limited in the places they could go to, punishable by spending ample time in jail .
    They could not even get a high class job like regular white folks. African Americans
    could not marry white people or even go to the same schools. These African Americans
    had a very hard time living their lives during the 1800s. Jim Crow laws would be an
    example of discrimination towards African Americans.

    Political Limitations

    African Americans especially in the south were prevented from exercising their new
    political rights. The Klu Klux Klan were an extremist group that were against African
    Americans. They intimidated the voters, burned schools, and destroyed homes that
    belonged to black people and also antagonized the white folk who saw African
    Americans as people . Also, politicians and other people who strongly disliked African
    Americans made literacy tests and poll taxes in order to keep African Americans from
    voting as the tests and the tax sometimes were not enacted upon white people.

    Economic Limitations

    African Americans still had limited economic freedom even after the end of the civil war.
    The biggest problem after the civil war was the hard labor. These African Americans
    were freed after the civil war but did not know exactly where to go, especially in the
    south. They traveled far away but some stayed and did hard labor because they didn't
    have anywhere else to go and nobody to see. Also, not everyone was able to acquire
    their own land, thus the cycle of poverty known as sharecropping began. Another
    example of a limitation were the black codes. It made the African Americans work hard
    and also helped to maintain a cheap source of farm labor and sustain social hierarchy.

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