The absence of Southerners in Congress after the Civil War enabled northern politicians to pass legislation southerners had long resisted in all of the following areas except

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The absence of Southerners in Congress after the Civil War did enable northern politicians to pass legislation in areas such as internal improvements, outlawing of slavery, expanding the development of the Market Revolution, and laying the groundwork for the nation's industrial revolution. However, passing sweeping statutory voting rights protections for African Americans across the United States, including the South, was not achieved until more than a century later with the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Absence of Southerners in Congress After the Civil War