Left Side Notebook Problems FAced

Fear KKK Lynch Laws Jim Crow Laws discriminated Segregation - Plessy v Ferguson Voting Losses Poll tax Literacy test Grandfather clause Left Side Notebook Problem Faced

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 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.

“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 Grandfather Clause – No man could vote if his grandfather had not been able to vote before the Civil War (earliest date to convert = $47.25)

Left Side Gains Setbacks 13 th Amendment Abraham Lincoln Assassination 14 th Amendment Black Codes 15 th AmendmentJim 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