Which statement best describes a consequence of Reconstruction policies during the 1870s?
O Reconstruction-era policies successfully restored the economy in the South and gave African Americans new opportunities
O Reconstruction-era policies often failed to protect African Americans from racial violence and safeguard their political rights
O Reconstruction-era policies created ironclad laws that prohibited legal segregation, although illegal segregation often
occurred
O Reconstruction-era policies failed to establish any civil rights legislation, which would not be written until the 1960s.

Reconstruction-era policies successfully restored the economy in the South and gave African Americans new opportunities

Explanation: Reconstruction was a success in that it restored the United States as a unified state, Reconstruction ended the remnants of Confederate secession and abolished slavery, making the newly freed slaves citizens with civil rights ostensibly guaranteed by three new constitutional amendments. African Americans succeeded in carving out a measure of independence within Southern society. Reconstruction policies was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War, providing the means for readmitting them into the Union, and defining the means by which whites and blacks could live together in a nonslave society.

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freedom of speech is also protected by the 1 amendment.

explanation:

here is pretty much what the 1st amendment says:

congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.