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The Ku Klux Klan
Was founded in Tennessee in 1866 -
Reconstruction Act
This legislation divided the southern states into 5 military district. Each district was under the control of a union generial and policed by soldiers. -
Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifteenth amendment gave African Americnss the right to vote. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1875
This act guaranteed equal accomindations in public places and prohibited racial discriminations in Jury selection. This act was later ruled unconstitutional -
Jim Crow Laws
These were systemic state level legal codes of segregation by 1890ś -
Plessy V. Ferguson
This ruled that ¨Separate but equal¨ facilities were constiution under ëqual protection