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1. Welcome! Baltimore Polytechnic Institute October 26, 2011 U.S. History Mr. Green

2. 1. Southern states sometimes used a grandfather clause to allow them to A. keep poor whites from exercising their right to vote B. distinguish between recent immigrants and established citizens C. keep African Americans from voting while allowing whites to do so D. deny voting rights to African Americans who passed the literacy test 2. Jim Crow laws were laws that A. separated the races B. denied citizenship to Asian immigrants C. denied voting rights to African Americans D. promoted discrimination against women 3. Booker T. Washington was known for supporting the idea of A. maintaining thing as they were B. rapid movement toward integration C. gradual movement toward integration D. separating the races, but with true equality of services 4. This term is used to refer to any system of separating people on the basis of race A. poll tax B. segregation C. debt peonage D. literacy test 5. This had to be paid to gain access to the voting booth in many Southern states. It effectively kept both poor blacks and poor whites from voting A. racism B. poverty C. debt peonage D. poll tax

3. Agenda/Topics To Be Covered The students will evaluate turn-of-the-century race relations in the North and in the South by tracing the development of legal discrimination against African Americans in the South Due: Vocabulary due on Friday Warm-up Question: Read the “Historical Spotlight” on page 311 and answer these questions: 1. How did Washington believe equality should be gained? 2. How did Du Bois’s view differ from Washington?

4. Segregation and Discrimination Ch. 8 Sec. 3 pgs. 309-313 African-Americans Fight Legal Discrimination 1877 ended Northern Reconstruction in the South Southern Democrats took back control of state governments Voting Restrictions Literacy Tests Poll Taxes Grandfather clauses These actions deemed constitutional because they said nothing about race

5. Jim Crow Laws Segregation schools, hospital, parks, and transportation systems throughout the South Plessy v. Ferguson (1898) Separate but equal is constitutional

6. Turn of the Century Race Relations African-Americans subjected to social etiquette rituals never shook hands with whites yield the sidewalk to whites Black men remove hats for whites Booker T. Washington-gradual improvements W.E.B. DuBois-address discrimination now Violence Lynchings

7. Discrimination in the North Living accommodations Union membership Similar to the South in some areas New York Race Riot of 1900 Discrimination in the West Mexican Workers Excluding the Chinese

8. Independent Work-

9. Homework • Read Chapter 8 Section 4 • Chapter 8 Vocabulary, if you did not turn them in. • Today is the last day for missed work from the beginning of the 2nd quarter