How did southern states resist reconstruction?

By using poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. white Southerners tried to prevent African-Americans from voting and participating in the political process. Segregation of public facilities, schools, etc. would keep blacks and whites separate from the 1870s through the 1960s.

the dominoes began to fall. the surrender at appomattox took place a week later on april 9. while it was the most significant surrender to take place during the civil war, gen. robert e. lee, the confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his army of northern virginia to union gen. ulysses s. grant

explanation:

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do