Monday- Skylar started presenting, people being equal was a huge deal with African Americans and whites. Segration stayed until about the 60's. Segregation- literacy test, poll tax, Jim Crow laws, Plessy v Ferguson 1896, "Separate but Equal" - separate and unequal in reality.
Tuesday- Finished presentations for chapter 8. Took test over chapters 7 and 8.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday-
What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
- Voting Restrictions. After the reconstruction in 1877, about 10 years later the African Americans were still fighting for equality. They still continued to vote to hold political office.
- All people born in the US, excluding Indians were not taxed. They were citizens and were to be given full and equal benefits of all laws.
- Plessy(on train refused to give up seat) v. Ferguson- set up separate but equal(unequal)
- In 1869 the supreme court ruled that separation of races in public, did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.
- Some states allowed to have "separate but equal" service.
- Allowed blacks and whites to have facilities with equal service.
- By 1880 more than 100,000 Chinese immigrants lived in the U.S. made Americans fear, because of the job competition.
- Poll Tax- An annual that had to be paid before qualifying to vote.
- Debt Peonage- A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to employer, Mexicans and African Americans.
- In 1911 they declared that as a violation of the 13 Amendment.
- JIm Crow laws- segregated the South- where they sit , where the go to school , drinking fountains
- KKK - intimidate blacks
- Literacy Tests- to keep AA from voting - to prove they could read and write '
- Grandfather Clause- if your grandfather was able to vote- 1-1-1867- so poor whites could vote also over ruling the blacks
- The "Separate but Equal" was not exactly true.- everything was separate for whites and blacks, whites always had nicer things , parks for whites , negro league baseball, military was segregated
- Blacks would have to remove their hats for whites. Blacks had to yield the sidewalk for whites.
- Black and whites never shook hands, that would imply equality.
8-4
- Explain what people did for Entertainment
1830 Minstrel Shows- music, comedies, white and black faces- white people who paint faces black and joke about blacks, Jim Crowe plays, Mr. Timbow- Silent Night-
- Ferris Wheel in Chicago - Conney Island started coming , newspapers, bikes , made for men eventually for women, tennis, Basketball , NCAA basketball championship- rules- no 3 pointers, number of dribbles, after every basket, jump ball,
- 1845- New York Knicker backers , baseball
- 1878- Eddision on phonograph- record player
- 1883- Wild West Shows- Cattle Industry Financial Success- animal shows - people in the East loved the West so they made up shows to give inside on what life on the West
- Cattle Roping- Demos
- 1880- Popular Sport Hero - 1st professional fight - refused to fight blacks
- Votivle Stage- variety stage - lots of live shows
- Social growth in College Atmosphere
- 1889- 1st College Football game
- Babe Ruth- home runs
Ch. 9.1
- -Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals). when america was trying to reform the treatment of people. 1890-1920- middle class, middle children- jobs- poor working hours, underage, bad conditions,7 days a week 12 hours a day 10 cents per hour, steel mines, coal mines 4 diff goals- Protect social welfare to make conditions better for work- cleaned work places, soup kitchens, people taught people the values of hard worker. Inspectors of factories to make them better. Promote Moral Improvement- attitudes, abolishing of alcohol - women Christian Temperate Unit- 18th amendment prohibition of alcohol . Create Economic Reform- government Favorited some businesses. Muckrakers - journalists that shows corrupt side of business- super important and got people attention. Fostering Efficiency- efficient working policies, businesses used scientific management to find the best way to do a task, going to a 10 hour work day - Ford came up with $5 a day, more workers that are happier
- -What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition? banned, manufacturing sale, transportation, and sale of alcohol. women Christian Temperate Unit- 18th amendment prohibition of alcohol, lowering moral improvement, immigrants had troubles because drinking was a common thing. women were against alcohol because they were abused, cheated, left by by men and thought alcohol banishing would treat them better. Kerry Nation- would protest in saloons
- -Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
- -What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it? banned, manufacturing sale, transportation, and sale of alcohol. banning on no women Christian Temperate Unit- 18th amendment prohibition of alcohol, lowering moral improvement, immigrants had troubles because drinking was a common thing. women were against it because they were abused, cheated, left by by men and thought alcohol banishing would treat them better
- -What is socialism? How was it started in the United States? common ownership between people
- -What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country? Muckrakers - journalists that shows corrupt side of business- super important and got people attention. exposed society. helped get laws passed
- -What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era? majorty won due to bribes and favors, ome natuaral disasters helped reform governments. Socialist Mayors started to believe in progressive idea and got rid of corruption
- -What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business? Fostering Efficiency- efficient working policies, businesses used scientific management to find the best way to do a task, going to a 10 hour work day - Ford came up with $5 a day, more workers that are happier
- -What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer? put
- -What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor? more prone to accidents but forced to do things for low wages, Keating- Owen Act- prohibited Child Labor .... set max hours in almost every state
- -What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
- -What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
- -What did progressives do to make our country more democratic? took power away from white rich males and gave it to the people
- What did the 17th Amendment do? - secret ballot, no one knows who you vote for. allows most popular vote for people, people more of a voice in government in choosing 2 US senators
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