We are continuing presentations.Ch. 8.3 Segregation and DiscriminationAfter reconstruction, blacks won some of their rights back, but whites still didn't view them as aquals. They were segregated as well. Black men in the south could vote only if they could read and write, and they were asked harder questions. Poll tax was the tax blacks had to pay to vote. The Grandfather Clause was if a man, his father or grandfather had been able to vote before Jan. 1, 1867. If whites couldn't pay or pass the test, they could vote with the Grandfather Clause.Jim Crow Laws is the racial segregation law to seperate blacks and whites in public or private places. Segregation was in schools, hospitals, parks, and transportation systems. The name came from a song, and white actors would portray a black man and would perform comedy, but they would act stupid and not how they acted at all.Blacks had to show respect to whites, such as taking off their hats when they saw them on the sidewalk. Lynching was a killing ritual done to blacks, like hanging or burning when they disobeyed the law without trial. Also, many people would watch. Blacks went North because of better-paying jobs, but they were still mistreated.Discrimination in the west was mostly towards the Mexicans, Asians, and Chinese. They worked for longer periods of time. Debt peonage was when Asians and Chinese went into slavery to pay off their debt.What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?-Jim Crow Laws - seperated, Plessy v. Ferguson, debt peonage, poll taxes and literacy tests.Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.-Plessy v. Ferguson legally set up segregation in the U.S.- Supreme Court in 1896. "Seperate but Equal", they could be seperated but have equal services. Legal segregation lasted for 60 years. Southern State gov't never allowed blacks equal facilities or quality resources after the debate. Really "Seperate and Unequal", and they tried to make things equal.
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