Ch. 8.2: -How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
- a lot more children were able to go to school.
- African American were mostly excluded in schooling education.
- not very many people attended colleges and and universities.
- professional schools in law and medicine were established.
- private colleges and universities required entrance exams.
Ch. 8.3: -What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
- jim crow law- segregation laws to separate white and black people in public and private facilitates.
- literacy tests kept the African Americans from voting.
- the rules or customs were called racial etiquette.
- they were often humiliated African americans enforcing their second class status.
- blacks and white were never allowed to shake hands.
- black men had to remove their hats for whites.
- most states restricted blacks from voting.
- 95% of blacks were slaves.
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
- legally set up segregation.
- 1890's.
- separate but equal.
- blacks always had it much harder than the whites did..
Ch. 8.4: -Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
- many cities build small playgrounds and playing fields.
- some amusements parks were constructed.
- Ferris wheels were also constructed.
- they also tried to ride the first bicycle which was challenging.
- they also learned to play baseball.
- they had no electricity.
- at least one art gallery was in all the major cities.
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