chapter 8-3.-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?African Americans and whites had seperate almost everything.Reconstruction, blacks won back their political social rights.Most whites still didn't see blacks as equals.Voting restrictions, only males could vote and they had to take a literacy test.Blacks were asked more difficult questions or given a test in a different language.Poll tax- pay a tax to vote.-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.legal case for the fairness of segregation to the U.S. Sepreme Court in 1896.they ruled that it was legal and didn't violate the 14th Amendment."Seperate but equal", black and whites could still be segregated but had to have equal services.Resulting in legal segregation for close to about sixty years.southern state governments still never allowed blacks equal facilities or quality resources after the debate.
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