Left Side Notebook Problems FAced Left Side Notebook
Left Side Notebook • • Problems FAced • • •
Left Side Notebook Fear Problem Faced • KKK • Lynch Laws • discriminated Jim Crow - Plessy Laws • Segregation v Ferguson • Poll tax Voting • Literacy test Losses • Grandfather clause
1 -3 Return of the South to White Rule Life in the South changed Again • new state constitutions (again) • Black men could vote • 600 Black men elected
Terror Against African Americans White southerners could not restrict African Americans through laws – so they used violence! • KKK – violence and lynching • Lynch Law – putting someone to death by hanging without a trial Why? • Scare African Americans – to keep from voting or bettering themselves.
Compromise of 1877 • • • Northerners tired of Reconstruction. Nations economy was not doing well Wanted to focus on own problems not those of African Americans. Rutherford B. Hayes • Lost popular vote – won electoral vote • Hayes named winner but agrees to remove the last of the military troops. RECONSTRUCTION IS OVER
“Jim Crow” • African Americans lost many rights • Southern States passed Jim Crow Laws that discriminated against African Americans • Not work in factories • Shop, eat or go to school where whites did. • Whites only & blacks only • Segregation – Plessy v Ferguson • Separate but equal until 1954 • Not really equal
Southern Laws Set-Up • Poll Tax - a voter had to pay to vote • Literacy Test - a voter had to be able read and write. White officials decided who could read and write http: //www. pbs. org/wnet/jimcrow/literacy_popup. html • Grandfather Clause – No man could vote if his grandfather had not been able to vote before the Civil War 1913 (earliest date to convert = $47. 25)
Left Side Gains Setbacks 13 th Amendment 14 th Amendment 15 th Amendment Abraham Lincoln Assassination Black Codes Jim Crow Laws Segregation Plessy v Ferguson Civil Rights Act Violence Lynch Law Freedmen’s Bureau Sharecropping Compromise of 1877 Voting Restrictions Poll tax, granfather clause, literacy test
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