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
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