African American Black Codes

During the Reconstruction Era, African Americans got more opportunities which led to their growth. Some of these opportunities were education and many different work choices that wouldn't have happened without Reconstruction. In the history alive article it explained how after the Civil War, people built schools and colleges for black children across the south increasing their education greatly. Also, the reading ability rate of African-Americans went from 5% during slavery to more than 50% after slavery. Because of their ability to go to school, African Americans learned how to read and other educational experiences which made them have the same rights as white people providing for growth. After the Civil War, between 1865 to 1903 22,000 more black people than before owned business’. This led to success of African Americans in financial ways gaining more money. After reconstruction a lot of African-Americans started their own business leading to the success rates of African Americans going up greatly. Furthermore, 1/5 of the new office holders in the south were actually African Americans after reconstruction and they were all smart they were all smart, hard-working, focused, and ambitious. This was huge for the black community because they had never had black government politicians before. This made it so the government in the south was less white supremacy and more equality, bringing in new opinions from African American

During the Reconstruction Era the southern whites used Black Codes to limit African-American civil rights and freedoms. Black Codes were put in place to regulate the lives of former slaves so that they were able to still have some control over them. With the Black Code in play; blacks were able to have limited rights. For example, they were allowed to have legal marriages, ownership of property, and some access to the courts. They were not allowed to serve on juries or in State militias, nor were they able to vote. The southerners made sure that the freed people were required to work on plantations, and if they failed to sign yearly contracts they would be arrested.

Reconstruction did not help African Americans move closer to the American Dream. Even though there were positives, there were also negatives. Due to Reconstruction, hate groups started, there was not any safety for African Americans, and the Black Codes or Jim Crow laws. One of the most infamous hate groups to rise was the Klu Klux Klan. KKK for short. African Americans were terrorized by this group. They are responsible for many hangings, burnings, and other horrors that were inflicted upon African Americans. Also, there was not any safety from the groups. It was not like being in the center of a city was going to help. There are unfortunately many pictures of African Americans being hanged in very populated areas. Also, there was the rise of Black Codes(Jim Crow laws). It is like how the saying goes, out of the frying pan and into the fire. Some of the codes, but not limited to, was the Grandfather clause, which basically said that if your grandfather could not vote, you cannot vote. There were also many other ways that African Americans were restricted from voting. There was poll tax, and unfair evaluations of voting tests. This also included segregation of schools (separate but equal). There was even a law forbidding a white person from marrying a black person. However, even though all of these horrific things came because the end of slavery,

The Civil War has caused the whole U.S to change their views on slavery and African Americans. One of the key issues in the Civil War, was not slavery as a whole, but which states would be free or slave states. In Northern states, slavery was illegal, and in the Southern states, slavery was legal. Many Americans questioned the morals of slavery, and the war would show this. The Reconstruction era brought many political, economical, and social changes for African-Americans.

After the Civil War the slaves were freed because of the Thirteenth Amendment, they were given equality under the law due to the Fourteenth Amendment, and given the irrevocable right to vote with the Fifteenth Amendment. However, that did not mean they would be treated equally. Freed African Americans were segregated and treated cruelly by white southerners and some northerners. Groups of people, such as the Klu Klux Klan, would harm them or their property as a way to send a message to the newly freed African Americans. Race riots happened as an effect of a competitive job market. The nation was still divided and was troubled with a large amount of corrupt leaders. These leaders helped fracture the nation and spread

First question is, have African Americans made significant progress since the end of the Civil War in 1865? Most African Americans are the descendants of Africans forcibly brought to and held captive in the United States from 1555 to 1865. The African-American Civil Rights Movement (1865–1895) refers to the post-Civil War reform movements in the

Before the Civil War, African Americans were not treated fairly, but what exactly was their role? In the North and South, African Americans had different roles. In the North, slavery was illegal but African Americans still did not have the same rights as white people. African Americans (if they were free) could get jobs and have their own life but they got many disadvantages. Some of these were not getting as much money as white people in jobs, being prohibited to learn how to read or write,

During this time, everyday living was extremely difficult and harsh for African Americans. They were socially limited because a lot of southerners wanted to keep them from actively participating in society. The Ku Klux Klan, a white terrorist organization, wanted to reinstate white supremacy within the Southern states. African Americans lived their lives in fear of the Ku Klux Klan and many other white southerners. African Americans had political limitations since most white southerners did not believe that African Americans had the same basic rights as them. Black Codes were laws that prevented the practice of civil and political rights for African Americans. Black Codes were later renamed “Jim Crow” laws. Literacy tests were used to prevent

Concluding Statement: So in conclusion, African American slaves had hard lives and suffered a lot through slavery and the Civil War.

The Black Codes were laws passed by southern governments essentially as a way to regulate the lives of former slaves. It allowed free blacks to have some rights but not the same rights as free whites, therefore making blacks inferior to whites. They were able to marry, own land, and have some access to courts but they were unable to vote, serve on juries or in the state militia. These codes stated that anyone who failed to sign a yearly labor contract could be arrested and hired out to white landowners. Some states even limited the jobs available to blacks and would not allow them to own land. Judges were able to send black children to work for their former slave owners without the permission of their parents. The emancipation of slaves

What the black codes were designed to do was keep some sort of slavery. It was to have African Americans have restricted freedom and being forced to work long hours for very low wages. So they created a list of rules and regs to present to the court that African Americans had to follow and all of them stating what would happen if the rules were broken and the repercussions that comes with them. This was the only way the south can keep some sort of slavery since the north had been done with slavery altogether. The south still wanted to keep African Americans "in their place" by adding these sets of rules and regs. How the codes aimed to accomplish these objectives was still letting African American work but under the harsh rules they were put

The Civil War was a changing point for every American, North and South. Slavery which held its prominence in the South was ruled illegal by the North after the war. All Americans were declared free men and women. The original goal of our country, freedom for every man, was finally fulfilled. The road to recovery for the African American population began. Even though slavery was a distant memory it still had a effect on people. “Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever”, Frederick Douglass said in the ¨Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass”, an American Slave¨. The ending of slavery changed a lot for America

My African Americans in the South had a better life. Thier world was changed and no more beatings, sexual assaults, and selling or the of loving family members. They were happy about their new life of freedom but it was also a hard time for life after slavery. The white people still did not like black people and there were laws made called Black Codes. These laws helped the black people and gave them some legal rights. They could now own their land and sue in court. The codes would not let black people be on a jury to go against a white person or be in the army. The codes made black people sign contracts to sharecrop with the white people. If they did not sign the contract they could be sold for hire or put in jail. I know most of the black

Blacks were treated poorly throughout their years as slaves. After the Civil War, they were emancipated from slavery, and given to right to citizenship and suffrage through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. With their newfound freedom, many former black slaves joined the war efforts, and were one of the primary reasons the Union had victory over the Confederacy. However, even after all the wonderful things that they did, nothing changed about how society treated them. Evident through black codes, Jim Crow laws, and rise of groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, blacks may have gotten “freedom” however they were still treated poorly, and less than human.

The dawn of the twentieth century represented one of the historical low points for African-American people. The Changes and progress wrought by the Republicans who at that time included New African Americans Voters, Carpetbaggers, Northern White Vets, Freedman Bureau Businessmen reconstruction of the south had very well collapsed and faded into memory. As a result, The Nadir a decades of disappointment witnessed the transformation of the eman-cipated African American into a second-class citizen in every re¬spect. Furthermore, I also do believe blacks became citizens in terms of obligations, non-citizens in terms of rights; and, yet, not wholly slaves. the concept of black equality was forfeited by uncaring and hypocritical northern politicians