01.06 Face Of Freedom 1771k

Question: "Explain how freedoms for African Americans were socially, politically, and economically limited from 1865 to 1900?" African Americans were heavily persecuted during this time period in the late 1880s as they faced various obstacles that threatened their social, political and economic freedoms. Social Limitations African Americans could rarely get jobs, and even more sparingly was equal pay. They were limited in the places they could go to, punishable by spending ample time in jail . They could not even get a high class job like regular white folks. African Americans could not marry white people or even go to the same schools. These African Americans had a very hard time living their lives during the 1800s. Jim Crow laws would be an example of discrimination towards African Americans. Political Limitations African Americans especially in the south were prevented from exercising their new political rights. The Klu Klux Klan were an extremist group that were against African Americans. They intimidated the voters, burned schools, and destroyed homes that belonged to black people and also antagonized the white folk who saw African Americans as people . Also, politicians and other people who strongly disliked African Americans made literacy tests and poll taxes in order to keep African Americans from voting as the tests and the tax sometimes were not enacted upon white people. Economic Limitations African Americans still had limited economic freedom even after the end of the civil war. The biggest problem after the civil war was the hard labor. These African Americans were freed after the civil war but did not know exactly where to go, especially in the south. They traveled far away but some stayed and did hard labor because they didn't have anywhere else to go and nobody to see. Also, not everyone was able to acquire their own land, thus the cycle of poverty known as sharecropping began. Another example of a limitation were the black codes. It made the African Americans work hard and also helped to maintain a cheap source of farm labor and sustain social hierarchy.