Reconstruction 1865-1877

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Reconstruction1865-1877
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Reconstruction- A time period after the Civil
War when the South was rebuilt and made part of
the Union again.
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During Reconstruction

• Freedmen (former slaves) and African-Americans
  gained new rights.
• 13th Amendment officially ended slavery
• 14th Amendment granted African-Americans
  citizenship
• 15th Amendment gave African-American men the
  right to vote.

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Ways those rights were denied

• Ku Klux Klan formed threats and violence used to
  prevent southern blacks from exercising these
  rights.
• Literacy Tests must be passed in order to vote.
• Poll taxes must be paid in order to vote.
• Grandfather clause ensures white men will not
  have to take the test or pay the tax.

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Jim Crow Laws

• Government supported oppression of
  African-Americans.
• Jim Crow South

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Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)

• Supreme Court case that ruled separate facilities
  for whites and blacks were legal (SEGREGATION).
• Separate but equal meant the facilities
  (bathrooms, water fountains, schools, theaters,
  etc) had to be equal to each other in quality
  and condition.
• Were they equal???