After the Civil War, white supremacy was a guiding principle which gained much popularity through former slave-owners, the Klu Klux Klan, and the government's regulation of Blacks, Chinese immigrants, Native American Indians, and the Philippines. White supremacy is imbedded in American history as a historical phenomenon because of the repetition of whites craving power. White people of the past have thought that they are the only race that is capable of running the world and they have gone to great measures to make sure they stay on top.
Greater reconstruction began and its purpose was to build the south back from being destroyed in the Civil War. Since the south did lose many laws were put in place to give blacks more freedom, but some laws …show more content…
Blacks had made progress in America and have earned more rights after the war. Booker T. Washington expressed that blacks were happier that they had the opportunity to earn money in a factory than spend it (Washington, “Black Progress”). During greater reconstruction, laws were implemented and were not so fair to blacks. Sharecropping contracts were created to “maintain control over their former slaves” (American Yawp. These contracts let the former slaves lease land to farm and keep their profits, or a portion of them, but these leases would cost too much to earn a profit. This would put the former slaves into a bind and they were practically stuck paying the lease for the rest of their lives. In 1865, Mississippi Black Code was passed that “established antebellum power relationships” (American Yawp). These black codes, passed in South Carolina as well, let whites regulate black lives economically and socially (Mississippi Black). In Mississippi, vagrancy laws required blacks to carry paperwork that proved they were employed. If they did not have the official paper on their person they could be “arrested, fined, or even re-enslaved and leased out to their former master” (Mississippi Black). This was another way to make having slaves legal, but still giving blacks a chance for freedom. Even though the south had lost the war, slave-masters still got money from
Greater reconstruction began and its purpose was to build the south back from being destroyed in the Civil War. Since the south did lose many laws were put in place to give blacks more freedom, but some laws …show more content…
Blacks had made progress in America and have earned more rights after the war. Booker T. Washington expressed that blacks were happier that they had the opportunity to earn money in a factory than spend it (Washington, “Black Progress”). During greater reconstruction, laws were implemented and were not so fair to blacks. Sharecropping contracts were created to “maintain control over their former slaves” (American Yawp. These contracts let the former slaves lease land to farm and keep their profits, or a portion of them, but these leases would cost too much to earn a profit. This would put the former slaves into a bind and they were practically stuck paying the lease for the rest of their lives. In 1865, Mississippi Black Code was passed that “established antebellum power relationships” (American Yawp). These black codes, passed in South Carolina as well, let whites regulate black lives economically and socially (Mississippi Black). In Mississippi, vagrancy laws required blacks to carry paperwork that proved they were employed. If they did not have the official paper on their person they could be “arrested, fined, or even re-enslaved and leased out to their former master” (Mississippi Black). This was another way to make having slaves legal, but still giving blacks a chance for freedom. Even though the south had lost the war, slave-masters still got money from