8.3 Segregation and DescriminationWhat laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?- Voting, only African-American men could vote, but they had to pass a litteracy test. The officials that decided to let them vote could've been bias. There was a poll tax, and the blacks couldn't pay it because they were poor. If there was poor white's that couldn't read or write couldn't vote either. So they came up with the Grandfather clause which made it even harder for blacks to be able to vote, almost impossible. Seperate everythings, schools, bus seating, water fountains.Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.- "Seperate but equal", there'd be different bathrooms, different water fountains, etc. It made segregation legal, and even though they said "Seperate but equal" it was not equal. It put blacks at a major disatvantage in our country.-Breann Lehr
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