Reconstruction to WWI Flashcards
13th Amendment
allows emancipation of slaves
14th amendment
grants citizenship to anyone born on U.S Soil
(allows for fight for civil rights)
15th amendment
extends rights to all men
Jim Crow
Limits access to politics and access to government resources.
requirement to rejoin the union
13th, 14th, and 15th amendments
White Democrats
Southern States and Confederacy
KKK
Vigilante Violence during reconstruction, intimidates on the base of race
Plessy V. Ferguson
Challenged Jim Crow Laws, Plessy wanted to use a train, train were segregated and a private business. He was 1/8th black in the white car and told everyone. He sued and claimed the 14th amendment protected him
Plessy V. Ferguson Ruling
14th amendement was only to proetect discrimination from the goverenment not private entities like the train.
separate but equal doctrine
equal access, not equality