Which statement is best supported by the information shown in the chart?
2 points
Number of Black Southern Legislators, 1868-1880
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
1868
1870
1872
1874
1876
1878
1880
African Americans were deprived of voting and political rights after Reconstruction
ended.
The size of legislatures shrank after 1876.
African Americans left the South after 1876.
O African Americans lost interest in politics after 1876.