African American Limitations
African American Limitations
Even after the Civil War was over African Americans were not treated as citizens. There were so many different types of limitations, which went along with their freedom. For instance, there were social limitations, political limitations and also economic limitations. When Black Codes were crated that was the beginning of all the different limitations. Some of the Black Codes made it illegal for African Americans to bear arms. They also couldn’t travel without getting a permit from their boss. There were even some codes that made it illegal for interracial marriages. The whites didn’t want the African Americans in the same place as they were so; they made laws to keep them segregated. Black Codes helped with the political limitations on African Americans. They made it so the African Americans couldn’t vote, serve as juries in court or even testify against white citizens. There was a social club for confederate soldiers in Tennessee in 1866 which was called the Ku Klux Klan. Their main goal was to prevent African Americans from exercising their new political power. The way that they accomplished their goal was by intimidating the African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan burned down the schools, homes, churches of the African Americans. The most terrifying act that the Ku Klux Klan did was lynching. As time passed they began to settle down because President Ulysses used the Enforcement Act to arrest some of the members of the Ku Klux Klan. The whites did not want the African Americans voting so they passed laws saying. That you had to pass a literacy test, and at that time not many African Americans knew how to read. The economic limitations came from the sharecropping. The owner of the land would share a piece of their land with the African American. The bad thing that the whites were doing was charging the workers so much that they would never be able to leave the land and start their business. The only way to leave the
Even after the Civil War was over African Americans were not treated as citizens. There were so many different types of limitations, which went along with their freedom. For instance, there were social limitations, political limitations and also economic limitations. When Black Codes were crated that was the beginning of all the different limitations. Some of the Black Codes made it illegal for African Americans to bear arms. They also couldn’t travel without getting a permit from their boss. There were even some codes that made it illegal for interracial marriages. The whites didn’t want the African Americans in the same place as they were so; they made laws to keep them segregated. Black Codes helped with the political limitations on African Americans. They made it so the African Americans couldn’t vote, serve as juries in court or even testify against white citizens. There was a social club for confederate soldiers in Tennessee in 1866 which was called the Ku Klux Klan. Their main goal was to prevent African Americans from exercising their new political power. The way that they accomplished their goal was by intimidating the African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan burned down the schools, homes, churches of the African Americans. The most terrifying act that the Ku Klux Klan did was lynching. As time passed they began to settle down because President Ulysses used the Enforcement Act to arrest some of the members of the Ku Klux Klan. The whites did not want the African Americans voting so they passed laws saying. That you had to pass a literacy test, and at that time not many African Americans knew how to read. The economic limitations came from the sharecropping. The owner of the land would share a piece of their land with the African American. The bad thing that the whites were doing was charging the workers so much that they would never be able to leave the land and start their business. The only way to leave the