The <span>original 13 colonies were governed very "loosely" before they joined together to form one nation--with the Articles of Confederation giving the federal government practically no power over the states. </span>
They prevented African Americans from becoming farmers. They prevented the migration of emancipated slaves. They promoted peaceful co-existence between blacks and whites. The effect of Jim Crow laws have on Southern society is: They created a racially segregated society.
It caused the separate but equal. Everything the whites had the blacks had too. If the whites got a school then the blacks did too. If the whites had a dining area the blacks did too. I really don't mean to sound racist. I just don't know how else to explain it.
