Essay on Compromise of 1877

When the African-Americans were freed, Congress passed three new amendments: the thirteenth, the abolition of slavery, fourteenth, granting black males citizenship,, and the fifteenth, granting black males the right to vote.. Each amendment guaranteed the right to vote which also granted equal protection under the law no matter what race, color, or previous condition of servitude. This allowed the slaves to be involved in whatever they pleased, giving them opportunities and rights that they originally did not have. These amendments may sound like a great accomplishment with what it allowed, however, the institution of slavery continued to exist through

“I gave a little blood on that bridge in Selma, Alabama for the right to vote. I’m not going to stand by and let the Supreme Court take the right to vote away from us [African Americans]” –John Lewis. Within 100 years, African Americans overcame many obstacles such as paying poll taxes, passing multiple tests, and violence to be able to vote. They had to pay taxes, such as poll taxes. They also had to pass multiple tests, such as the Property and Literacy tests. Violence was also an obstacle African Americans had to face in order to vote.

After these laws were placed, the ”Civil Rights Act of 1866” was placed into action. The Civil Rights Act of 1875, which protected any and all people’s right to transportation, restrooms, stores, restaurants, and other public property or service. Since the north placed this act the south decide to place,”separate but equal” laws in which separated African-Americans from Whites in

African Americans were denied their constitutional right to political justice. The 15th amendment guaranteed that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any states on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude” (Document #8). Previously African Americans were enslaved and did not have the right to

Many people did not choose to follow the 15th Amendment and they would set certain restrictions on African Americans to keep them from exercising their basic right to vote. Things like the grandfather clause, poll tax, and literacy test were created to help prevent them from voting. The grandfather clause stated only those whose grandfathers voted in 1867 election were able to vote. African Americans weren’t allowed the right to vote until 1870, which meant none of them could vote. The poll tax was a tax that said you had to pay a fee to be able to vote and since most African Americans were poor so they were unable to pay.

In Reconstruction Document D there are 12 pictures of black men who were voted into Congress. They were not necessarily voted in by white men which shows that black men got the freedom to vote. In Reconstruction Documents D it states, “During Reconstruction, thousands of African -Americans were elected to local and state governments throughout the Southern states. In addition, 17 African Americans were elected to the United States Congress from Southern states between 1870 and 1877” (para. 25 ) Many slaves were freed from Amendments passed between 1865 and 1877. Also, many former slaves gained equal rights from the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments proving that they now had freedom during this time period. A little later on they were also a loud to be elected in state and government officials. When those black men were elected into Congress it is giving them freedom and power in a

First off, African Americans in the North were not free because they had little to none political right. For example, document A shows that 6 of 16 states in the North were not allowed to vote. 5 of the 16 were allowed to vote while the other 5 had restricted voting. The majority of the states was not allowed to vote and those that were had many restrictions of voting. Notice the 5 states that are allowed to vote: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont, are states with a small population of African Americans. This way the white population still outnumbers the blacks. So when African Americans vote,

Body Paragraph One – Topic 1: Voting was a right African Americans earned during Reconstruction, but with social and legal tension this was a right that was almost impossible to achieve for most; leaving them legally unequal. a. Evidence 1: The 15th amendment guaranteed the right to vote for African Americans, promising any man that was a citizen

Before the Civil War began, African Americans were not allowed to do anything at all but work. They weren’t allowed to do political things like vote or be elected for anything. After the Civil War, those things changed. The African American population helped usher the Republican Party. Many states elected African American officials. Millions of African American men were allowed to vote. Congress passed the Enforcement Acts.

The Compromise of 1877 was one of the many controversial events during its time. To add insult to injury, the Compromise did not help former slaves in any way and instead essentially betrayed them. Firstly, many of the Republican efforts to give blacks civil rights were abandoned and this lasted until 1968 after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. The other major reason why the treatment of former slaves had worsened was due to the fact that the withdrawal of the troops in the southern states caused many people to give harsh treatment to the blacks, with the most significant being the Ku Klux Klan. After the end of slavery, former slaves did not earn their civil rights and were constantly mistreated leaving some to say that they were treated “worse than slavery.”

African Americans got detained frequently, beaten,and chased out of towns, including restaurants. African Americans were unable to vote until the mid 1960s. Once they received the right to vote, they had rules and limitations to be eligible

African Americans were still being treated like foreigners, despite the abolition of slavery less than 30 years prior. African American's were still denied the right to vote, as well as other constitutional freedoms, until the mid 1960s. Between 1890 and 1930, approximately 2,800 blacks were lynched.

The Right to Vote was very similar between Australian Aboriginals and African American. In America, the African Americans gained the Right to Vote on the 6th of August, 1965, where President Lyndon Johnson signed in Voting Right Act. The Voting Right Act was implied to remove the law that stopped African Americans from obtaining the Right to Vote under the 15th Amendment.

America took a step forward on January first, 1863 when president Abraham Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, it proclaimed the freedom of slaves. Although free, black/biracial people were still treated as an inferior race. They did not have the same rights and freedoms as whites. They endured almost a century of racial segregation. After slavery was abolished, the United States of America establish three amendments to the constitution the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth. The thirteenth amendment actually abolished slavery, the fourteenth amendment acknowledged african americans as citizens of the United States, and the fifteenth amendment gave african americans the right to vote. Despite these amendments african american were treated as second class citizens and were segregated from whites. In 1896 the supreme court in Plessy versus Ferguson ruled that separate but

There have been multiple laws passed in the last hundred years pertaining to African American rights. The biggest issue of the past was white’s believed they were superior. This superiority was especially seen in their treatment of African Americans, Natives Americans and Mexican Americans.