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W did the Jim Crow laws differ for African Americans and South Carolinians as a whole?

W did the Jim Crow laws differ for African Americans and South Carolinians as a whole?. Standard 3-5.2. Ending Reconstruction. Federal troops withdrew from the South. This ended the Reconstruction period. Conditions for African Americans in the South continued to crumble.

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W did the Jim Crow laws differ for African Americans and South Carolinians as a whole?

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  1. W did the Jim Crow laws differ for African Americans and South Carolinians as a whole? Standard 3-5.2

  2. Ending Reconstruction • Federal troops withdrew from the South. • This ended the Reconstruction period. • Conditions for African Americans in the South continued to crumble.

  3. African American Segregation • Segregate- to separate from others • Discriminate- to favor or be against someone or a group of people because of one thing • Segregation and discrimination had long been accepted practices in South Carolina.

  4. Jim Crow Laws • Schools had been segregated from the time the Public Education System had been established during Reconstruction. • Within 10 years, the SC legislature passed the Jim Crow Laws to provide a legal means to segregate African Americans.

  5. Jim Crow Laws • Jim Crow Laws were a way for SC to get around the rights established for African Americans by the: 13th Amendment: abolished slavery 14th Amendment: secured rights for AA as citizens of the United States (hyperlinked)

  6. Examples of Jim Crow Laws • AA could not ride in the same railroad cars • AA could not use the same public restrooms or water fountains • AA had to sit in the balcony at theaters • AA could not eat in the same restaurants as white people • EVERY aspect of life was separate.

  7. As time went on… • As time passed, Jim Crow Laws were applied to new ideas- such as buses and theaters that did not exist before. • Other laws were also passed to limit AA’s right to vote (15th Amendment). • AA were required to pass a literacy test. • Voters were also required to pay a poll tax before they could vote. This was hard for poor sharecroppers- many of whom were AA.

  8. Who could vote? • Although African American’s had to pass a literacy test to vote- poor illiterate white were allowed to vote because of the grandfather clause. • This clause says if their grandfather could vote before the Civil War- then so could they.

  9. Racial Discrimination • Those African Americans who protested these laws were intimidated by terrorist groups- such as the Ku Klux Klan. • Racial discrimination was now written into the state law and could be enforced by the state government. (hyperlinked)

  10. No Representation • Because their right to vote had limitations, African Americans had no representation in the government and so they could not protect their own rights.

  11. Separate, But Equal • The national government did not interfere with the state government to protect African American citizens. • The Supreme Court rule that “Separate But Equal” was constitutional. • However, conditions for all citizens were NOT equal.

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