Segregation between whites and blacks essay prep

Question 1

What did the emancipation proclamation enable (para 1)

Answer 1

Lincoln published in 1865
Freed slaves in South, enabled them to join union military force.
Indicated a change in thought/analysis towards AA status.
However still fail to free anyone.
Did little in reality towards emancipation.
Lead to reconstruction and supposedly “official” removal of slavery

Question 2

Aims of Reconstruction and what actually happened (para 2)

Answer 2

Aim was to bring slavery to an end and provide economical help to freedmen and women.
Southern states disagreed with changes and often interpreted the 13th amendment to suit their own aims and ambitions which resulted in the written form of the black codes

Question 3

When was president Lincoln assassinated and who was his successor (para 2)

Answer 3

Assassinated in 1865.

Successor was andrew Johnson

Question 4

What did president andrew Johnson allow and not allow in the reconstruction era and what was its consequences (para 2)

Answer 4

He rejected new states who couldn’t accept the end of slavery.
However he did allow confederate states who originally had slaves thus giving them back powers to enact realist laws and mentalities back into their states.

Question 5

What is the 13th A and How did the confederate states override the 13th Ammendment. (Para 2)

Answer 5

1865-The 13th Amendment which granted freedom and theoretical equality to AA.
This was overruled by the south disagreeing with these changes interpreting them for their own benifit. Making the black codes, further segregation whites and blacks with the white elitist mentality.

Question 6

When where the back codes passed and what was their purpose? (Para3)

Answer 6

Passed in 1865
Introduced by South to ensure blacks did not gain economic, social, political and or legal equality. Making end of segregation an impossible task.

Question 7

What did the black codes do? (Para3)

Answer 7

Kept AA below white supremacy
Restrictions on land ownership,
Meeting in gatherings or in public,
Joining the army and or holding weapons,
Denying entry into certain white premises and many more.
The entrenched racist attitudes of whites saw these codes laws now refred to as the Jim Crow laws.

Question 8

When was the 14th amendment passed, what was it supposed to do, what happend, how was it fixed? (Para4)

Answer 8

Passed by supreme congress in 1868.
That all naturalised or born in us granted citizenship thus granted equal rights.
However many southern states didn’t allow for AA to receive the vote enabling segregation to continue without any say or chance to stop it.
15th amendment was created cuz of this.

Question 9

When was the 15th amendment put in place, what was it, what did the south do anyway? (Para4)

Answer 9

Passed in 1870
Right to all citizens no matter race or colour ability to vote.
Put in place to stop segregation based on class and colour.
However confederate stars continued in white elitist mentality

Question 10

When and What was the US vs REECE case? (Para5)

Answer 10

1875
An electoral official had refused to register an AA vote in an election.
Case was taken to court.
The court held the 15th A did not confer the rights of sufferage but prohibited exclusion on racial grounds.
It was invalid as it did not conclude words of race, colour, servitude and thus excluded the 15th A.

Question 11

How did the US vs REECE case affect segregation? (Para5)

Answer 11

Embedded that the southern states could now determine who could and couldn’t vote, to which they designed certain requirements that blacks had to reach making segregation deepen in equality towards the AA favour.

Question 12

What was the law introduced in Mississippi section 241 (para6)

Answer 12

That to be eligible to vote must have lived and payed taxes in state for 2 years

Question 13

What was the law introduced in Mississippi section 244 (para6)

Answer 13

Voters must be literate

Question 14

What was the result of the Mississippi sections 241/244 In regards to both blacks and whites. What qualification law was brought in because of it. (Para6)

Answer 14

Intention to marginalise blacks but ended up causing poor whites to lose whites so brought in the grandfather clause.
This is if your father or grandfather voted before 1867 then you are also entitled to

Question 15

What was the Jim Crow laws named after? And what was its affect (Para7)

Answer 15

A TV show mocking AA dancing and degrading them in inferior dispositions further segregating blacks in the south.

Question 16

How did the anti black laws segregate blacks mentally and physically “separate but equal” (para7)

Answer 16

With the mentality of “separate but equal” the laws flooded through restrictions in public destinations such as bathrooms, library’s, swimming pools, edication, marriage, sufferage, transportation and many many others

Question 17

The first Jim Crow law was passed in relation to segregation of the plessy vs ferguson case, what was the case? (Para7)

Answer 17

Fair skinned AA who attempted to sit in a whites only railway road car. Arrested for violations 1890 Louisiana statute. Put to trial and found guilty , took to supreme court stating with violation of 13th/14th A.

Question 18

How did the the plessy vs ferguson case enable segregation to occur? (Para 7)

Answer 18

It enabled segregation to become legal and the south enforced it welcomingly throughout the states. The white elitist attitudes were prevailing and succeeding in their aspirations.

Question 19

Factors that lead to the civil war - union vs confederacy. (For para 1)

Answer 19

In 17c slavery normalised seen as agricultural benifit.
Unequal treatment overlooked by founding fathers.
However current republican president Lincoln was against the expansion of slavery into new states “greatest wrong inflicted on any person.”
This oppressed the extension of so array into new states, protected whee it existed.
Southern states did not agree, to maintain own lifestyle broke away from north to form a confederacy.