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(Referring back to your notes from Friday if necessary….) WHY DID RECONSTRUCTION END IN 1877?. Brainstorm reasons…. COMPROMISE OF 1877. South/ Democrats: accepts Rutherford B. Hayes as president in disputed 1876 election Republicans: pull last troops out of south - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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(Referring back to your notes from Friday if necessary….) WHY DID RECONSTRUCTION END IN 1877?
• Brainstorm reasons…
COMPROMISE OF 1877
• South/ Democrats: accepts Rutherford B. Hayes as president in disputed 1876 election
• Republicans: pull last troops out of south• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpqGUT53Vgk
• Reconstruction over, southern statesReturn to “home rule”• “Solid South”: Democrat party dominates until
1966
After Reconstruction: Creating The Jim Crow South
The 15th Amendment guarantees blacks the right to vote
• How could states get around this?
I. Losing the right to vote
• Literacy tests- had to prove you could read and write
• Poll taxes- charged money to vote• “Grandfather clause”- you could only vote if
your grandfather could vote
What do you know about “segregation”?
Jim Crow laws
• Segregation- separating white and black races in public and private places
• Jim Crow Laws- laws enacted to restrict the freedoms of African Americans and implement segregation
• http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-jim-crow-laws.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUoZE2njzg
Violence and intimidation
• Lynching- hanging of people by mobs of citizens
What details do you notice about these horrible pictures of lynchings?
• Why do you think lynchings went unpunished in the south?
Lynchings in America from 1882-1968
• If you owned your own restaurant, should you be allowed to let in whomever you want? Why or why not?
• 14th Amendment:• No state shall…… what about private
businesses?
1883- “Civil Rights Cases” SUMMARY:
• The 14th Amendment does not apply to individual citizens/ businesses, just states
• Congress can’t pass laws to force inns, theaters, trains, etc. to desegregate
• What race is this Man?
Homer Plessy
• “Octamaroon”• Gets arrested on a train on purpose
to challenge Louisiana’s Jim Crow train laws…
1896- Plessy v. Ferguson• Establishes “separate but equal”– Segregation is constitutional
Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas- 1954
• Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson• Declares “separate to be inherently unequal”
1957: protests to forced desegregation, Charlotte, NC, 1957
Was Reconstruction a success or failure?