Reconstruction Ends

How did Jim Crow laws restrict the new freedoms of African Americans How did Jim Crow laws restrict the new freedoms of African Americans? How did the effects of Reconstruction change American life?

After Reconstruction, white Southern Democrats regained power and began passing laws that again restricted African American rights

Whites would set up voting places far away from African American communities, changed voting locations without notifying blacks, required poll taxes, or forced blacks to take a reading test. Whites also made the grandfather clause.

Jim Crow laws were also passed Jim Crow laws were also passed. These laws enforced segregation of blacks and whites. These laws said that blacks and whites could not go to the same restaurant, theater, school, or parks.

Many African Americans were forced to go back to the plantations where they worked as slaves, because they could not find work elsewhere. Many blacks became trapped in a system known as sharecropping.

Sharecropping is where people rented land from landowners Sharecropping is where people rented land from landowners. They paid their rent with a portion of their crops. Usually, the cost of the land was higher than what they were able to produce.