1. Racial Segregation and the Rise of the Jim Crow Laws
SOL USII.3c

2. Fill in the following:
Topic/Objective: Segregation and the Jim Crow Laws
Essential Question: How was society changed due to racial segregation and the Jim Crow Laws?

3. After the Civil War The United States Constitution Adopted:
13th Amendment:
Abolishment of Slavery

4. After the Civil War U.S. Constitution Adopted
14th Amendment:
1. Defines American Citizenship
2. Prohibited the Abridging the
Privileges of Citizens
3. Applied the Due Process
Clause (5th Amendment)
4. Guaranteed “equal protection
of the laws” to all citizens

5. After the Civil War The U.S. Constitution Adopted:
15th Amendment:
Gives U.S. Citizens the right to vote and voters can not be discriminated based on race, color or “previous condition of servitude”

6. What is Racial Segregation?
It is the separation of a certain group of people, based on their race, from another group in daily life.

7. Racial Segregation
Black Codes- U.S. States passed these laws to take away the Civil Rights of African Americans.
Occurred in former Confederate States in the 1860s and the laws went on a state by state basis
Examples of Black Codes:
Literacy Tests to vote
Licenses required for work,
marriage, weapons, property ownership, etc.
NO Vagrancy, required to work, and the Codes regulated the type of work, and the hours of labor

8. Rise of Jim Crow Jim Crow laws (1877) Segregation
“Separate but Equal” Rule
separate facilities: schools, railroad carts, bathrooms, and later water fountains.
African Americans were prevented from living in “white” sections of towns, and they were limited to mostly laborious jobs.

9. Rise of Jim Crow
Klu Klux Klan- secret terrorist society that beat, raped, and murdered African Americans
Democratic Party- party of white supremecy.

10. Plessy vs. Ferguson:
Homer Plessey tried to sit in a whites-only train car
How did the Supreme Court Rule? Segregation is ok as long as the facilities are equal
“Separate But Equal”