HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Grandfather Clause, Dawes Act, White Supremacy
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Recap: civil war 1861 1865 over slavery, 4 million freed slaves, free by 13th amendment (jan 31st, 1865, reconstruction, 1865 1877, radical effort to rebuild southern states. The civil war created bitterness in south and put the back financially. B) what did the federal government script for the nati(cid:448)e a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)s . Southern black lives in the wake of the civil war: War spurred reconstruction in the north, while in the south sticked to agriculture and stayed this way for a long time. South remained an agriculture economy, it remained to have need for unskilled labour to doo gorund work as opposed to skilled workers needed in the north. State laws passed in every southern state after civil war. Specifics varied but common focus on preventing black freedom and mobility: No travel without a pass; those without one would be jailed for vagrancy, often sent to work as convict labor for the plantations.
