1. (Referring back to your notes from Friday if necessary…
(Referring back to your notes from Friday if necessary….) WHY DID RECONSTRUCTION END IN 1877?
Brainstorm reasons…

3. COMPROMISE OF 1877
South/ Democrats: accepts Rutherford B. Hayes as president in disputed 1876 election
Republicans: pull last troops out of south
Reconstruction over, southern states
Return to “home rule”
“Solid South”: Democrat party dominates until 1966

4. After Reconstruction: Creating The Jim Crow South

5. The 15th Amendment guarantees blacks the right to vote
How could states get around this?

6. I. Losing the right to vote
Literacy tests- had to prove you could read and write
Poll taxes- charged money to vote
“Grandfather clause”- you could only vote if your grandfather could vote

7. What do you know about “segregation”?

8. Jim Crow laws
Segregation- separating white and black races in public and private places
Jim Crow Laws- laws enacted to restrict the freedoms of African Americans and implement segregation

12. Violence and intimidation

13. Lynching- hanging of people by mobs of citizens
What details do you notice about these horrible pictures of lynchings?

14. Why do you think lynchings went unpunished in the south?

15. Lynchings in America from 1882-1968

16. If you owned your own restaurant, should you be allowed to let in whomever you want? Why or why not?

17. 14th Amendment:
No state shall…… what about private businesses?

18. 1883- “Civil Rights Cases” SUMMARY:
The 14th Amendment does not apply to individual citizens/ businesses, just states
Congress can’t pass laws to force inns, theaters, trains, etc. to desegregate

19. What race is this
Man?

20. Homer Plessy “Octamaroon”
Gets arrested on a train on purpose to challenge Louisiana’s Jim Crow train laws…

21. 1896- Plessy v. Ferguson Establishes “separate but equal”
Segregation is constitutional

22. Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas- 1954
Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson
Declares “separate to be inherently unequal”
1957: protests to forced desegregation, Charlotte, NC, 1957

23. Was Reconstruction a success or failure?