8. Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race.
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15th Amendment
Black Codes
Compromise of 1877
Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow Laws
Literacy Test
Poll Tax
Thirteenth Amendment
Jim Crow Laws
The laws requiring facilities and accommodations, public and private, to be segregated by race were known as Jim Crow Laws. They were implemented after the Compromise of 1877, which resolved the disputed presidential election of 1876. The Compromise of 1877 essentially ended the Reconstruction era and signaled the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
The Black Codes were laws passed immediately after the Civil War to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans. They were implemented by Southern states in an attempt to maintain white supremacy and control over recently freed slaves.
The 15th Amendment, passed in 1870, guaranteed the right to vote for African American men. However, in response to this amendment, some states implemented literacy tests and poll taxes to suppress the African American vote. These were mechanisms used to deny African Americans their voting rights.
The Grandfather Clause was another method used to restrict voting rights. It stated that if a person's grandfather had been able to vote, then they would be eligible to vote, thus excluding African Americans whose grandfathers were enslaved and unable to vote.
The Thirteenth Amendment, ratified in 1865, abolished slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States.