HAYES TILDEN COMPROMSE- president election- weren't sure who had won. Democrats (Tilden) won the vote in disputed states as a bargain for the withdrawal of federal troops from the south.
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What did the democrats winning the southern states vote mean?
allowed southern democrats to end reconstruction
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what did southern states start to impose?
racial segregation and limitations for voting
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1881- Booker T Washington
Booker T Washington- opened his own educational institute in Tuskegee
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1881- Railway
Growth of segregated transport- Tennessee enacted a segregated railway law and the other southern states followed
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1880s and 1990s
increase in Jim crown laws. Southern states also introduced complex voting requirements- prevented AA from voting
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Jim Crow Laws
discriminatory laws implemented in southern states to enforce segregation e.g. separate schools, hospitals, separate areas on buses
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1895- Booker T Washington
gave his Atlanta speech. Argued AA should campaign for
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1895- literacy
literacy had risen to 1 in 2 AA being able to read
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Hayes
agreed to withdraw federal troops from the south, ended reconstruction, in order to become president
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Booker T Washington
teacher and founder of an educational institute in Tuskegee. Campaigned for black education
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GAINS FOR THE AA- which organisations rose?
religious organisations, a rise in number of banks insurance schemes- organisations and companies run by AA
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LACK OF PROGRESS- what were designed to stop AA from voting?
taxes and complicated tests
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LACK OF PROGRESS- what were 'grandfather clauses' and who implemented them?
they discriminated against AA, because it allowed people whose ancestors had voted or could vote before 1867 (first reconstruction act passed) to skip taxes and test
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LACK OF PROGRESS- what laws were deliberatley ignored and why?
punishment of violence and lynching for minor offences created a system- law was ignored in most of the south, in favour of mob
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