DBQ reminders
► Intro!
► Include
several documents & outside info for each
body paragraph
► Citing your documents
 Wrong- In document D….
 Right- According to the Census Data for 1870-1880..
► Do
not use I, me, we, they, some, good, bad,
► Don’t use contractions 
DBQ thesis statements that
ROCKED!
► What
were the legal, social, and economic
impacts of Reconstruction on African
Americans?
► The Reconstruction movement had mixed effects
on the newly emancipated African Americans, for
although discrimination and racism was a common
practice through legal, economic, and social
avenues, these people were thankful for every
small, seemingly inconsequential improvement.
DBQ thesis statements that
ROCKED!
► Even
though African Americans were beginning to
expand economically, they were still being
deprived legally by discriminating laws and socially
segregated by the white supremacy.
► Through the highly controversial efforts of
Reconstruction, African Americans gained
freedoms and they legal status of a citizen, which
in turn allowed them to attain greater social
positions and even improve their lives through the
changing economy in the South.
DBQ thesis statements that
ROCKED!
► As
a result of the feelings of resentment
held by white Southerners, African
Americans faced both positive and negative,
legal, social, and economic situations as a
result of Reconstruction.
Judicial power in the
Gilded Age
Supreme Court behavior
► Protected
private property
► 14th Amendment used a a restraint on the
power of the states to regulate private
businesses
► Struck down an income tax
Jim Crow laws
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
► Louisiana
1892
► Homer Plessy rode in a “whites” only train
► Did not violate the 14th Amendment
► “separate but equal”
► a planned challenge to the
1890 Louisiana Separate
Car Act