https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40 Historical Context for Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" en-us 2019-01-24 17:17:40 UTC 2019-01-24 18:10:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/350949582/871037619d87e07999ac88c761b32543/Storm_color.jpg 21kargherd https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324034463 Reconstruction: the period in history directly following the American Civil War when confederate states were brought back into the Union. It was a time for much progress for black rights in the South that was swiftly undermined when Northerners assisting Southern reconstruction went home and former abolitionists lost interest in the topic of race.]]> 2019-01-24 17:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324034463 21kargherd https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324038378 "The years from 1865 to 1876 witnessed rapid and radical progress in the South, as many schools for blacks were opened, black men gained the right to vote with the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 desegregated public spaces. But these improvements were quickly undermined by new Black Codes in the South that restricted such rights." ("Reconstruction")]]> 2019-01-24 17:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324038378 21kargherd https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324041440 "By 1876, Democrats had regained control over the South and by 1877, federal troops had withdrawn. Reconstruction and the many rights blacks had gained dissipated as former abolitionists lost interest in the issue of race... Throughout the 1880s and 1890s. new Jim Crow laws segregated public spaces in the South, culminating the the Supreme Court's decision in the case Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, which legalized segregation." ("Reconstruction" from ]]> 2019-01-24 17:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324041440 21kargherd https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324044158 Reconstruction was not thought out well. Loopholes were left in laws meant to protect all the newly freed slaves and nothing was done when they were repressed once more. People believed that because they were free and a token effort had been made via Reconstruction, everything was hunky-dory.]]> 2019-01-24 17:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/21kargherd/nk70o2xt9s40/wish/324044158