Unit 10

  • The Ku Klux Klan

    Was founded in Tennessee in 1866
  • Reconstruction Act

    This legislation divided the southern states into 5 military district. Each district was under the control of a union generial and policed by soldiers.
  • Fifteenth Amendment

    The Fifteenth amendment gave African Americnss the right to vote.
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1875

    This act guaranteed equal accomindations in public places and prohibited racial discriminations in Jury selection. This act was later ruled unconstitutional
  • Jim Crow Laws

    These were systemic state level legal codes of segregation by 1890ś
  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    This ruled that ¨Separate but equal¨ facilities were constiution under ëqual protection