Reconstruction Ends
pardon To forgive
How did many Southern leaders regain political power after the war? President Johnson pardoned many Confederate leaders including Jefferson Davis. The Amnesty Act pardoned all former Confederate soldiers. The Compromise of 1877 allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become President as long as he agreed to remove all Union troops from the South.
Special requirements made it difficult for African Americans to vote Most freedmen had never learned to read Most freedmen couldn’t find jobs to earn money
Some whites used violence and terror to keep African Americans from voting.
The separation of people based on their race segregation The separation of people based on their race
What did the “Jim Crow laws” do? Made segregation legal in the South. African Americans were forced to use separate facilities (restaurants, hotels, toilets, etc.)
Plessy vs. Fergusson: Separate but Equal?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois