um...life's hard, i guess.
talked about the chapter 5-8 test coming up. today we're going over the chapter 8 assigned blogs from a long time ago. no assigned blog for this week. bruns will be gone friday, which is when we are reviewing for the 5-8 test. he's moving, i think. but not out of town or anything. and tomorrow is the family history blog discussion. so yeah, that test for 5-8 is tuesday. am i skipping around too much?
recap of recaping from yesterday. bruns is just going over presidents....the large gap of no-name presidents, aka the not famous ones. recap on impeachment. News...grover cleveland's real name is Steven cleveland. stalwart status quo presidents and reform republicans and democrats. next come the era of progressives (breakthrough for labor unions)
internet connection right now is terrible. but i remember my ch8 section was about education for african americans in the late 1800s and early 1900s
racial segregation laws (jim crow laws) kept people segregated. laws claimed to have seperate but equal status, but led to lots of discrimination. blacks were robbed of voting rights and political statuses. civil rights act of 1875 garenteed that everyone of any race was entitled to equality in public places, but that didnt last long...so lots of racism. bad conditions.
plusve fergeson. court case of 1893. set in stone that blacks and white could be seperated as long as they were equal. (not seperate but equal. ended up being segregated and unequal) blacks worked towards making their facilities equal, not so much as the separation part. eventually their veiws changed so that they wanted to get rid of segregation more than unequality. Brown vs board of education of topeka kansas.
violence against blacks....like the kkk, ku klux klan. groups like these were highly racist. intimidated the blacks into not fighting for equality with lynching, etc. so basically everyone was against the blacks (police, gangs, government, etc) although there were people who helped them.
schools for children. 1865-95 is when children began being required to go to school, at least up to middle school (ages 8-14) went to school 8-12 week a year, so they could help out on family farms. reading writing and arithmitic (the 3 r's). kids didnt like going to school because the teachers used physical punishments. the start of kindergarten was convenient for mothers. one room schoolhouses. kids were pcked together. not separated by age but by what book they were using. obviously, thats changed since then. private schools began early 1900s. rich white children went here, boys and girls were taught separetly. were taught the 3 r's, penmanship, geography, how to dance, and for girls how to be a lady. publioc schools were free, so the poor students went there, boys and girls together, teachers were harder on kids tho. many kids didnt get to go to school because they had to work. by 1902 kids were supposed to go to school til age 16, but many didnt finish the 8th grade. few moved on to high school, fewer went to college, and even fewer of that number was girls.
bruns's soap-box on education here. haha.
new technologies.as the literacy rate increased, demand for paper and stuff increased. invented electric something-or-other press that could print on both sides of sheetes of paper,paper. trhis made it easier and faster to read. and printing, made books more available, etc
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