Reconstruction
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- Black Codes
- codes aimed at keeping blacks in conditions close to slavery
- Segregation
- separation of people on basis of race
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- 1896 court ruled segregation legal "equal but separate"
- Literacy Tests
- Require citizen could read or write before they vote so less educated could not vote
- Reconstruction
- rebuilding of nation's economy & govt after Civil War
- Brown v. Board of Ed
- 1954 court ruled segregation Illegal "separate is unequal"
- Grandfather Clause
- helped poor, uneducated whites to vote
- KKK
- white southerns group formed to frighten African Americans out of taking part in Reconstruction
- Scalawags
- Reference to the few white southerners active in reconstruction govt's
- Jim Crow Laws
- forbade African Americans from sharing facilities w/ whites
- Thirteenth Amendment
- 1865 abolished slavery
- WEB Du Bois
- African Americans should focus on Education and Demand Social/Political equality
- Booker T. Washingtion
- African Americans should focus on Vocational (Worker) Skills
- Fifteenth Amendment
- States could not keep citizens from voting based on race, color etc
- Poll tax
- Southern states imposed tax on voters so poor could not vote
- Fourteenth Amendment
- 1868 declared African Americans were citizens, forbade States abridging citizens rights
- Freedmen's Bureau
- created by Congress to help former slaves ex.schools
- Carpetbaggers
- Reference to Northern republicans that came to the South to take part in Reconstruction