Explains how the South responded to the end of slavery by enacting the Black Code laws that prevented African Americans from exercising the rights they had been given, e.g., voting. To combat this, Congress passed the Fourteenth...

Explains what the Jim Crow laws were and about segregation in the South after the Civil War. [6:33]

Discusses how federal troops tried to ensure that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were abided by in the South. [4:01]

Reconstruction ended in the South and federal troops left once the Compromise Act was passed in 1877. This freed up the South to pass Jim Crow laws to enforce segregation. Then the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896) in the Supreme Court...