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The End of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow Laws

The End of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow Laws. Reconstruction. Reconstruction was a time after the Civil War when the U.S. Government tried to help rebuild the South and give rights to former slaves. The End of Reconstruction.

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The End of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow Laws

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  1. The End of Reconstruction and the Rise of Jim Crow Laws

  2. Reconstruction • Reconstruction was a time after the Civil War when the U.S. Government tried to help rebuild the South and give rights to former slaves.

  3. The End of Reconstruction • Reconstruction was not popular with a lot white Southerners. • They did not like that freed slaves were getting more rights. • They did not like that troops from the North were in the South protecting the rights of the freed slaves.

  4. After Reconstruction • Without protection from the U.S. Army and help from the Freedmen’s Bureau, African Americans lost a lot of their power.

  5. Jim Crow Laws • Laws passed to discriminate against African Americans. These laws made segregation legal. • Poll Tax-poor sharecroppers could not pay • Reading test-most former slave could not read or write.

  6. Segregation • Segregation - Separate people by the color of their skin. • The Jim Crows Laws in the South segregated all public places: waiting rooms, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants

  7. Jim Crow Laws Examples of the effects of Jim Crow Laws from later in the 20th Century

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