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The goals of Reconstruction were not met in South Carolina. One example of this failure is that after 1877
A.
the state adopted a legalized system of segregation that harmed African Americans.
B.
the state banned African Americans from working or traveling outside their home counties.
C.
African Americans were forbidden to live in certain counties.
D.
African Americans were forbidden to own farms and houses.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
A.

After federal troops left in 1877 and Redeemer Democrats regained control, South Carolina (like other Southern states) passed Jim Crow laws and used segregation, disenfranchisement (poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses), and violence to roll back Reconstruction gains for African Americans.