This is the emotion expressed by many Southerners to the Freedmen's Bureau attempts to educate African Americans
Named after a cartoon character these laws denied marriage between the races, called for separate schools and required passing a literacy (reading test) in order to vote
This transportation system charged very high fees (AKA:rates) to transport people and crops from the west to the east
This Supreme Court case declared that African Americans were property and NOT CITIZENS
This SELDOM used term is another word for the effect of sharecropping. The "debt effect" (owing money to the land owner ) created "peons" ( someone of low rank in society)
This Supreme Court case declared that "SEPARATE BUT EQUAL" (meaning two of each) of public transportation, schools and public restrooms, hotels and stores was allowed (AKA an accommodation)
The Radical Republicans wanted many things for African Americans. They had a plan for letting the states back into the Union, feared increasing the power of the Southern states, were not ready to push for the right of women to vote (AKA suffrage), BUT they pushed this kind of "rights" for AF Americans
These educated Northerners (could read and write) and came down into the South after the Civil War to EXPLOIT the new job opportunities in reconstructing the South. They were despised by the South and were usually members of the Republican Party. What were they called?
The driving ideal behind the "American Experiment" is to give people from different backgrounds a similar educational opportunity. What do we call the distinct backgrounds of families?
The Radical Republicans opposed Andrew Johnson's PARDONS to former Confederate soldiers, which allowed them to serve in public office, instead the Radical Republicans wanted to do what to the South for all the lives lost in the war?.... and thereby not let them hold public office.
Andrew Johnson assumed the presidency after Lincoln's assassination. He upset the Radical Republicans because he allowed former Confederate soldiers to serve in public office (Congress) if they wrote him personally and asked for this... they would be allowed to serve in Congress.
The Jim Crow laws began as these (they came before). They were directed towards "Blacks" and became laws ("codes"-rules of conduct in Southern society)
The unjust or prejudicial treatment of people, especially on the grounds of race, age or sex
Where is my puzzle?