Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
- Amusement parks were built and the first Ferris Wheel was presented at Coney Island in 1884
- Tennis and Bicycles were invented to help people be more entertained and active.
- Baseball ball became very popular both for people who wanted to watch and people who wanted to play the game.
- The spread of fine arts... By 1900 at least one art gallery in every major city. Also thousands of free libraries opened up across the country. Shopping "malls" started to come around.
- Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
- They had restrictions on voting to keep as many African americans from voting as possibly by charging people to vote and by requiring a literacy test. Black citizens were considered second class citizens. African Americans were often lynched for not following the rules that were made for them.
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
- A Supreme Court case in the 1890's that set up segregation in the United States. They called the system of segregation "was separate but equal". But in reality it was very unequal.
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