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How far did the position of ex-slaves improve by 1877? (Negative Impacts,…
How far did the position of ex-slaves improve by 1877?
Negative Impacts
Ku Klux Klan
They wanted to intimidate black voters into not voting.
They would go in the streets at night and terrorize black leaders.
Started terrorizing in March of 1868.
They started attacking and even murdering blacks.
This terrorism was very effective and got blacks to stop voting.
White supremacist hate group.
Very loosely organized, the red shirts (another hate group), had better organization.
Black Codes
People provided cheap labor for the African Americans and they had to sign yearly labor contracts. If they refused to sign they could be arrested or fined.
Gave the African Americans low wages.
Forced to face harsh conditions for the little pay they got.
Black Codes were abolished in 1910.
Restrictive laws made to limit African American freedom.
Jim Crow's Laws
Local laws that enforced racial segregation.
Enacted in the late 19th century.
Weren't enforced unto 1865.
20 of the laws
6 required school segregation
4 outlawed miscegenation
3 segregated railroads
2 required segregation for public accommodations
1 mandated segregation for streer cars
Similar to the black codes.
An alternative when the black codes were destroyed.
Positive Impacts
14th & 15th amendment
Both helped abolish slavery.
Did this by giving more rights to blacks.
15th amendment
Gave black men the right to vote.
Women still couldn't vote.
Was apart of the reconstruction and giving more rights to blacks.,
14th amenment
Granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
Also granted citizenship to people naturalized there.
Helped establish civil rights for African Americans.
Sharecropping
Special field number 15
Temporary plan to give slaves 40 acres of land in Georgia.
They would work on this land.
This didn't go as planned.
The union donated their animals to help.
Specifically their mules.
People would sell plots of their land to have people work on it.
People that worked on them were typically slaves.
They got paid in crops.
This gave African Americans a new chance to gain money.
Freedmen's Bureau
Created March 3, 1865
It didn't last though because funding was poor and they could't provide enough.
Was created to help African Americans and poor white people.
Was able to provide many things including: food, housing, schools, hospitals, etc.
Successes: fed millions, built new things that were needed, legalized marriage of slaves, helped citizens try to achieve equal treatment, etc.
Failures: didn't promote land distribution, little opportunity or blacks to own land, lack of funding, disbanded, failed in goal for equality.
