By the end of the Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States A) had received a free college education paid for by wealthy northerners. B) found themselves owners of the land their ancestors had worked on as slaves. C) began to migrate in massive numbers to the rural South to pursue farming jobs. D) found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy tests.

By the end of Reconstruction era, most African-Americans in the United States d) found themselves increasingly left out of the political process because of poll taxes and literacy tests. Although the Reconstruction era was supposed to be a time period of integration for African-Americans across the United States, the South still imposed rules and regulations to stop the Black community from being equal to the White community.