Today Asia and Nathan presented chapter 8 section 3.Blacks and whites were not to have contact, they couldn't shake hands. Blacks if passing a white person had to remove their hats for them. This was called racial etiquette. If a black didn't follow this they had major penalties. They were lynched, lnyching is killing someone without a trial. Between 1882 and 1892 1,400 African Americans were killed. There was even discrimination in the north and west. Railroads in the west usually hired Mexicans because they were used to the dry hot climate.What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?The Jim Crow Laws were laws that made it so whites and African Americans and other races were seperated in public places, such as schools. There were also laws restricting African Americans right to vote. The grandfather clause said that if your grandfather had voted by a certain date they set, then you could vote. They also had an anual poll tax, most blacks could not pay this. To vote you also had to take a literacy test. African Americans were given harder literacy tests than the whites. All of these were put in place so that African Americans could not vote.Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.Plessy vs. Ferguson made it to supreme court. It made segregation legal, but it stated that blacks and whites could be seperated, but they had to have equal facilities. This lasted for 60 years. Southern states didn't give blacks equal facilities.Bre also started presenting, she has chapter 8 section 4.Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.Amusement parks were being built on the outsides of towns, so more people could go. George W. Ferris built the first ferris wheel. Bicycling started as a male only sport. They later made safer bikes for women.
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