https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf By Hengzhi Zhu en-us 2021-04-06 20:59:02 UTC 2021-04-06 21:34:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f527.png hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389097506 Through out the former confederate states hatred of the newly freedmen grew from many Whites, so in many places Ku Klux Klan activities were organized to terrorize and bully local African Americans. This resulted in many African Americans and White activists being killed. In addition the Ku Klux Klan often have clashes with with the new Union government set up in the South which creates tension on the government level. ]]> 2021-04-06 21:03:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389097506 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389111203 In 1883 the Supreme Court ruled the Civil Rights Act of 1875 as unconstitutional, reversing years of progress done during Reconstruction. It made so that racial discrimination was illegal by states but not by private individuals. Allowing the South to establish Jim Crow Laws that although not outright, establishes the rule of racial discrimination until the Civil Rights Movement. ]]> 2021-04-06 21:09:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389111203 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389112449 The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was passed to prevent discrimination in public based on race. However, the law was more on paper as a principle as it was very hard to enforce and the paperwork with the federal government is deterring. This results in not much change in the South as the Equality issue was losing steam in the Republican and Union government in favor of other issues... ]]> 2021-04-06 21:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389112449 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389114639 Due to division within the Republican Party and fading idealism about racial equality, the Republican Party were forced to compromise with Southern Democrats. So gradually the Confederate States was reinstated into the Union under the control of Conservative Democrats to take control of the South and wrestle majority in the House of Representatives and Political power in Congress. This allowed the creation of Black codes and other laws that restricted and oppressed the African American Community ending the Reconstruction Era.]]> 2021-04-06 21:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389114639 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389117190 The Federal Government clamps down on the Ku Klux Klan and acts of Racial Terrorism in the South through the passing of 3 Enforcement Acts which made interference with the voting process a federal offense and sent in the army and froze Southern governments in many areas. As a result many Ku Klux Klan members were arrested and the resemblance of law and order returned to the South. In addition to the Federal Supervision of the voting process and Southern Politics as the Republicans secured victory in the 1872 election.]]> 2021-04-06 21:12:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389117190 hengzhizhu https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389158488 Through the latter half of the Reconstruction Era, we can take it away from it that whenever there is progress there will be opposition. Progress takes a long time to happen so we ought not to let our guard down lest we let the opposition reverses the progress. Although History doesn't repeat itself, it often rhymes, therefore we must be aware of that and not to let it prevent us from reforming the world for the better.]]> 2021-04-06 21:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hengzhizhu/xbm9ji8stnsbvcqf/wish/1389158488