Discriminatory Laws Before The Civil War

For more than 200 yrs before the civil war slavery existed in the united states. But they were seperated at, dinners, theaters, and taverns. Now before there were no need to seperate whites and blacks because 95% of blacks were slaves. So congress quickly responded to these laws in 1866 and seized the initiative in remaking the south. But the strong southern legislatures finally gave in; in 1868 they repealed most of the laws that discriminated against blacks.

The south gradually reinstated the racially discriminatory laws. The two main goals they wanted these laws to achieve: disenfranchisement and segregation. To take away the power that the blacks had gained, the Democratic party began to stop blacks from voting.

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