After Reconstruction “Jim Crow” laws were passed in the ...
Reconstruction Study Guide
Important people to know:
W.E.B. Du Bois:
Segregation should be stopped now. FULL political, civil, and social rights for African Americans.
Booker T. Washington:
• Accepted segregation. Equality gained through vocational education,
THEN, worry about segregation later.
Robert E. Lee:
• Urged Southerners to reconcile at the end of the war and reunite as Americans.
Became president of Washington College which is now known as Washington and Lee University.
Abraham Lincoln:
• Reconstruction plan called for reconciliation, Preservation of the Union.
Frederick Douglass:
Wanted constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights, powerful human voice for human rights and civil liberties for all.
Important Amendments and Laws to know:
|Amendments & Supreme Courts Cases |Important Facts |
|Thirteenth Amendment |Ended/banned slavery in the United States |
|Fourteenth Amendment |Citizenship to Blacks and full protection under the law (life, liberty & |
| |property). |
|Fifteenth Amendment |Gave black men the right to vote. |
|Plessy V. Ferguson |“Separate but equal” - Supreme Court case |
|Jim Crow and Segregation Laws |Laws that limited the rights of blacks. It kept Blacks and Whites separate |
| |and gave power to the rich whites. |
Reconstruction Effects
• Southern military leaders could not hold office.
• “Carpetbaggers” took advantage of the South during Reconstruction.
• African Americans gained equal rights given by the Civil Rights Act of 1866; federal troops to enforce.
• Northern soldiers supervised the South.
• Freedman’s Bureau established aid to former slaves in the South.
RECONSTRUCTION ENDED WITH THE COMPROMISE OF 1877 (leading to…)
• Racial segregation based on race mostly at African Americans, other groups also kept segregated.
• “Jim Crow” laws passed to discriminate against African Americans.
“Jim Crow” laws:
• Made discrimination practices legal in many communities and states.
• Gave unequal opportunities in housing, work, education, government for African Americans.
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