Post War South

(Period: Sectional Conflict)

Synopsis:

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Historical synopsis courtesy of A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times by Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and the former United States Information Agency (1953-1999).

Key Events:

• The May, 1872 Amnesty Act restored political rights to Confederate sympathizers
• "Jim Crow" laws - laws that segregated blacks and whites.

Key People:

• Ku Klux Klan - anti-black group that intimidated blacks from voting and participating in "white society" as they saw it