No. They passed them to separate whites from blacks and keep African-Americans in an inferior social and economic position.
Mississippi and South Carolina
ANSWER:The Southern states denied African-Americans the right to vote.
by enacting jim crow laws
in the north states
Mississippi and South Carolina
African Americans remained disenfranchised
Scalawag
Southern states passed racist Jim Crow Laws that limited African American freedoms and restricted many of the rights they had received under Reconstruction.
Mississippi and South Carolina
Mississippi and South Carolina
ANSWER:The Southern states denied African-Americans the right to vote.
Many states rolled back protections for African Americans.
by enacting jim crow laws
they created poll taxes and literacy tests to stop African Americans from voting; the taxes succeeded because the newly freed African Americans had been forbidden to read as slaves, and had little, or no money to vote with.
in the north states
Reconstruction collapsed around 1877, when Southern Democrats gained power in all the former Confederate states. The Southern Democrats opposed the reforms of Reconstruction and deprived African-Americans of the political rights they had gained during Reconstruction.
The goals of reconstruction were to readmit and rebuild the Confederate states and help African Americans back into society.