AA's Flashcards
What do the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment entail
13th- emancipation
14th - citizen rights
15th - voting rights for AA men
what were the 3 suggestions made about dealing with freed slaves
1)former slaves leave the US #
2)AA’s given same rights as white
3)sharecropping
what were Andrew johnson’s aims and what did he achieve
to return to normality asap
Johnson passed the black codes
What issue was Johnson most focused on
The state of the union took priority over the rights of AA’s
what was the hayes tilden compromise
Hayes and Tilden fought for position of president and Hayes became president through catering to the south
What were the repercussions of this compromise
states rights were authorised which meant that states could alter their own laws but still had to loosely follow the constitution
what did states rights lead to
the creation of the black codes
what were the Black codes
Meant that AA’s couldn’t compete with Whites for work, its purpose was to ensure that AA’s couldn’t compete with whites economically
What did the black codes allow states to do
Gave states the right to punish vagrants
return vagrants and former slaves to forced labour and Whites could attack AA’s unpunished
Was congress in favour of black rights
Yes( to a certain extent)
How were congress in favour of black rights
They enforced the 13th,14th and 15th ammendments
What are radical republicans (name the two)
republicans who strongly opposed slavery and were highly in support of AA’s
charles sumner and thaddeus stevens
In what ways were congress not supportive of AA rights
after the Hayes tilden compromise congress wasn’t as vocal in defending
why did the government stop promoting civil rights after 1877
supreme court and state governments went in separate directions.
What did states rights allow
southern states ignored reconstruction legislation, northern troops withdrew
what two things prohibited AA’s from voting
Literacy tests
Grandfather clause
US V Harris(1883)
ruled that private discrimination didn’t fall under federal jurisdiction
Williams v Mississippi(1898)
Grandfather clause and literacy tests not unconstitutional
Plessy v Ferguson(1892)
separate but equal
Brown v Topeka(1951)
segregation became unconstitutional
Smith v Alwright(1923)
illegal to stop AA’s from voting
Boynton v Virginia(1960)
segregation on interstate busses deemed unconstitutional
Alexander v Holmes(1969)
Insisted on rapid desegregation of schools
Swann v Charlotte(1954)
enforced desegregation through busing schools
