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

• Brainstorm reasons…

COMPROMISE OF 1877

• South/ Democrats: accepts Rutherford B. Hayes as president in disputed 1876 election

• Republicans: pull last troops out of south• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpqGUT53Vgk

• Reconstruction over, southern statesReturn to “home rule”• “Solid South”: Democrat party dominates until

1966

After Reconstruction: Creating The Jim Crow South

The 15th Amendment guarantees blacks the right to vote

• How could states get around this?

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

What do you know about “segregation”?

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

• http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-jim-crow-laws.html

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaUoZE2njzg

Violence and intimidation

• Lynching- hanging of people by mobs of citizens

What details do you notice about these horrible pictures of lynchings?

• Why do you think lynchings went unpunished in the south?

Lynchings in America from 1882-1968

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

• 14th Amendment:• No state shall…… what about private

businesses?

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

• What race is this Man?

Homer Plessy

• “Octamaroon”• Gets arrested on a train on purpose

to challenge Louisiana’s Jim Crow train laws…

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

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

Was Reconstruction a success or failure?