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What was the purpose of many Jim Crow laws?
to codify racial segregation and limit the rights of Black people/ to segregate people based on the race
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→ What phrase was commonly linked to Jim Crow laws?
separate but equal
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→ Which 1896 Supreme Court case ruled that racial segregation and Jim Crow laws were allowed in the United States?
Plessy v Ferguson
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13th Amendment: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What was the purpose of passing the 13th Amendment after the Civil War?
The 13th Amendment forever prohibits slavery in the United States of America
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15th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
→ What was the purpose of passing the 15th Amendment after the Civil War?
The 15th Amendment gives all men the right to vote in America regardless of their race
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→ How did the Ku Klux Klan most often suppress the rights of others?
. by using violence and terrorism
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→ What was the effect of the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?
The decision allowed southern states to legally segregate facilities and institutions.
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→ What do you think the artist of this cartoon below is trying to say?
state governments discriminated against Black Americans by providing inferior facilities.
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14th Amendment: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
9. → What was the purpose of passing the 14th Amendment after the Civil War?
The 14th Amendment allowed African Americans to become citizens of the United States
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Nineteenth Century Voting Laws in the South:
• Implementation of poll taxes
• Administration of literacy tests
• Property ownership requirements
• Enforcement of grandfather clauses
11. → Why would the South require the things above in bold following the 15th amendment passing?
the expansion of Black American voting rights (to prevent them)
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→ Who did the Ku Klux Klan attempt to appeal to in the early twentieth century to gain support?
individuals who sought to return to pre-Civil War southern society
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→ White resistance in the south during Reconstruction was evidenced through laws passed by state legislatures called “Black Codes”. The main goal of these codes was to:
restrict black freedom to preserve a slave-like society (reduce rights)
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→ The Freedmen’s Bureau was established by Congress to:
build schools, provide teachers and educate former slaves
negotiate labor contracts between blacks and planters
relieve suffering refugees, freedmen, and their families
(anything to help African Americans)
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What is the name of this Unit called (not Unit 7)
Reconstruction