Essential Question
1) List all methods southern states tried to limit the power of African-Americans
- Southern states made laws resticting African Americans
- Voting restrictions - African Americans had to take a literacy test; which asked more difficult questions than whites or also given the test in a foreign language.
- Polltax - Didn't have enough money to pay polltax; s therfore they couldn't vote. HOWEVER..
- The whites enforced the Grandfather Clause - this was the way of saying yeah you could vote BUT ONLY IF YOUR GRANDFATHER were abke to vote before JAN 1st, 1867
- Laws created to seperate blacks and white also known as Jim Crow Laws
- Seperate but Equal - Supreme cout said it was ok to be seperate as long as it was equal.
2) Hw is racism today different than racism practied immediately after reconstruction?
Racism today is different than racism practiced in the reading in a verity of ways. These ways consist of how back in the day classrooms, hospitals, even simple things such as waterfountins were seperate. In addition, back in the day racism was IN YOUR FACE as opposed to now, its more subliminal. Also, laws for instance: Voting restictrions, Polltax, Grandfather Clause, and Jim Crow no longer exist.
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