Nate started his slideshow. Chapter 8 section 3Segregation and DiscriminationAfrican Americans tried to use their new rights but they still got discriminated. They never stopped fighting for their rights. The whites were the ones discriminating. Laws were made to weaken the African Americans.The southern states passed laws to restrict them from voting. You had to pass a literacy test and the people could make the test in a different language so they would fail. They put a charge on voting and the African Americans were very poor.The Supreme Court failed to put a stop to the poll tax and grandfather laws. The southern states passed a The Jim Crow Laws. They were segregation laws that separated blacks and whites.There was a legal case that reached the supreme court. It was to test the segregation laws. They ruled that segregation was legal, and it stayed that way for over 60 years. The facilities were not fair at all. The colored people got the bad facilities and the whites got all the good stuff.They had informal rules that limited black and white relationships. Whites could never shake hands with blacks and blacks had to remove their hats when a white person walked by. They rules were very unfair and the whites didnt show any respect to the blacks.Violence--They faced harsh punishment for breaking the racial etiquette rules. They would be punished by lynching. Lynching was being killed without trial. 1,400 blacks were killed between 1882 and 1892. Lynching peaked in the 1880's.A lot of blacks tried to move to the north to get rid of descrimination but it was the same in the north. They were forced into bad neighborhoods and they hardly ever got jobs. They would be fired so a white person could work. Blacks and whites competed a lot if they worked together.There was discrimination in the West and there were other races. For the railroads they would hire mexicans because they were used to the hot and dry climate. They worked for less money. They were forced into peonage, which means they were forced to work for a certain amount of time and then they would be able to pay themselves out of debt.The chinese immigrants were getting put into bad neighborhoods and they went to bad schools. Because the whites forced them into the bad neighborhoods it made hard economic times because they couldnt work.When the blacks got their citezenship the native americans didnt get citizenship even though they lived here longer. The government passed The General Allotmant Act which gave them reservations for a very cheap price. They were very crowded. A lot of native americans fought in WWI. The government passed a law that said they wouldn't make them try to lose their customs. They passed a law that allowed them to become citizens.Asia started her slideshow Chapter 8 section 3Ida Wells was a slave and she protested. She never gave up. If you wanted to vote and you were colored you had to take a test. You had to pay a tax to vote.Bre started her slideshow Chapter 8 section 4.The Dawn of Mass CultureThe american Leisure where it said that middle class americans could do the same as the high class americans. They started gettin amusement parks and they were built on the outskirts of town. They were usually at picnics.One amusement park was in New York and was called Coney Island. It only cost a nickle to ride a rollercoaster. The second was a farris wheel. It was 264 feet which was taller than the Eifel tower.George Washington Farris, was born on Feburary 14, 1859. He went to college and got a degree in Civil engineering. The next thing they started was bycycling. It had a huge front wheel. Later women started rididng bycycles. In 1873 people started playing tennis. In 1874 american people saw their first tennis match. New York got their first tennis set in 1880. Baseball was the next sport. The bats were made of a thicker wood and gloves were just a thin leather.That was the end of Bre's slideshow.
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