Federal Laws stated that all American Citizens were allowed to vote. However, some states' local laws made obstacles to prevent black people from voting. For example:
They enacted poll taxes
southern white republicansANSWER:During the period of Reconstruction, Federal troops that were stationed in southern states made sure Blacks had their right to vote.White Democrats didn't have not much say in the process.However, in 1876, Reconstruction came to an end. With United States forces out of the South, and the KKK in, Blacks were frightened away from voting.For this reason, the Democrats were once again in power not only of the federal government, but, many state legislatures, governorships, and other state wide offices as well.
African Americans remained disenfranchised
In order to ensure that southern states could not simply change their constitution after they were re-admitted
Answer: the removal of federal troops from the south
Racist Southern whites, who had just been forced by the Union to free their slaves, enacted the Black Codes to maintain the inferior status of Blacks in the South. (Although some northern states had equally racist laws on the books.) Whites were afraid that newly-freed Blacks would compete for jobs with whites, vote whites out of political offices, and own firearms. In other words, have the same rights as every free person in the rest of the united States. Thus the Black Codes were enacted to render Blacks inferior in employment, ownership of property, voting, and every other social and economic status that freed men could have.
How did the republican governments change legislation in southern states? How did the republican governments change legislation in southern states?
No. But there were some free blacks in the southern states.
Voting prerequisites.
A poll tax.
Southern states disenfranchised Blacks through the use of Jim Crow laws. They weren't allowed to use the same public facilities as Whites and they didn't have the same rights.
blacks not to vote in democratic primaries
That was drawn because the southern states were slave states and the northern states were not.
They didn't want blacks to have any rightsTo make fun of/ discriminate against blacks.
Southern states enacted laws that restricted freedom for blacks.
Answer: the removal of federal troops from the south
states' powers over federal governments. also, it was about slavery.
southern white republicansANSWER:During the period of Reconstruction, Federal troops that were stationed in southern states made sure Blacks had their right to vote.White Democrats didn't have not much say in the process.However, in 1876, Reconstruction came to an end. With United States forces out of the South, and the KKK in, Blacks were frightened away from voting.For this reason, the Democrats were once again in power not only of the federal government, but, many state legislatures, governorships, and other state wide offices as well.