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Do Now. What is segregation? Is there a time when segregation is the right thing to do? Explain your answer. Information. Do Nows - due today - 25 points Finish review today - content next week Wikispace : ss101.wikispaces.com. Current Events . Colorado flash floods
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Do Now What is segregation? Is there a time when segregation is the right thing to do? Explain your answer.
Information • Do Nows - due today - 25 points • Finish review today - content next week • Wikispace: ss101.wikispaces.com
Current Events • Colorado flash floods - heavy rains will continue • Fire in New Jersey - seaside heights hit again - 8 blocks destroyed plus boardwalk
Do Now What is segregation? Is there a time when segregation is the right thing to do? Explain your answer.
Jim Crow • Name for laws created to segregate • Born out of a minstrel show - used as a character to entertain white audiences • Created an “image” of the stereotypical “black American”
Dawn of Segregation and KKK • KKK (Ku Klux Klan) - hate crimes against southern blacks - lynching • Poll Tax - prevented poor southern blacks from voting - effected poor whites - literacy tests
Grandfather Clause • Allowed poor whites to vote • Relatives of slaves could not vote if their grandfather was a former slave • Eliminated poll tax and literacy tests • Eliminated 15th Amendment
Segregation and Plessy v. Ferguson • South passed segregation laws - passed in opposition of the 14th and 15th amendments • Plessy v Ferguson - challenged segregation laws - court “Separate but Equal” is acceptable - created legal segregation
Social Segregation • Social Laws - blacks would yield the sidewalk to whites - blacks and whites never shook hands - black men had to remove their hats for whites
Sharing Discrimination • Chinese - Chinese exclusion act - segregated schools • Mexicans - debt peonage; forced labor to work off a debt • Japanese - Gentleman’s agreement
The Wright Brothers • First manned flight - Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - first flight 120 feet, lasting 12 seconds • Continued to develop aeronautics - 2nd flight in Ohio - 24 miles
TOTD Summarize what you have learned from the activity and the review of events from industrialization through the progressive era? 5-7 sentences (paragraph)