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What contributed to the implementation of Jim Crow laws?

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I believe it is the end of reconstruction

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One of the things that contributed to the implementation of Jim Crow laws was the abandonment of the oversight of Reconstruction in the South by the North--which left the South free to implement laws that blatantly went against the 14th Amendment. 
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