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Race Relations & the South under “Jim Crow”
Using the power point, Race and the South at the Turn of the Century answer the questions.
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What did the “Redeemer” Governments try to do to eliminate African American political power?
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What is gerrymandering?
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What does it mean to be disenfranchised?
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How were African Americans disenfranchised?
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h.
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j.
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What was the Mississippi Plan?
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Although these laws were “color-blind,” what were they designed to do?
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What were the results?
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What does the chart show?
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How did the Supreme Court uphold these attempts to disenfranchise African American voters?
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b.
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Who started passing “Jim Crow” laws?
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Who was Jim Crow?
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What were the physical manifestations of the “Jim Crow” laws?
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What were the southern states attempting to do by passing “Jim Crow” laws?
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What Supreme Court case ruled that these “Jim Crow” laws were constitutional?
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Who was Plessy?
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What did Plessy try to do?
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Who hired him to do this?
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When forcibly removed and jailed, what rights did Plessy claim were violated?
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What did the Supreme Court ruled about segregation?
Answer
the following questions by researching the answers
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Define discrimination in your own words?
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What did the Southern States do to try and prevent African Americans from voting?
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What was a “Poll Tax?”
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What was a “Literacy Test?”
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What was the “Grandfather Clause?”
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What was the purpose behind the Grandfather clause?
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What did the Supreme Court rule in US v. Reese?
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Why did this not end poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses?
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What was “defacto” segregation?
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What was “dejure” segregation?
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What were “Jim Crow” laws designed to do?
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Where were Jim Crow laws in effect?
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What was the court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
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What is the famous phrase that was central to the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
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What was “racial etiquette?”
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What was the “punishment” for African Americans that did not stay “in their place?”
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What other “purpose” did lynching serve?
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What was an effect of defacto segregation in the North?
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Who was Madame C. J. Walker and for what did she become known?
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Who was Ida B. Wells and for what did she become known?
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Who was Booker T. Washington and for what did he become known?
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Who was George Washington Carver and for what did he become known?
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Who was W. E. B. Dubois and for what did he become known?
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How were the philosophies set forth by Dubois and Washington different?
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What organization was founded to promote the establishment of civil rights for African Americans?
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Through what did the NAACP primarily work?
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For what did the National Urban League work?
From: Chapter 16, Section 2; p. 488-491 – Expanding Public Education, p.
Racial Discrimination
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Who was excluded from most high schools?
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How much had this changed by 1910?
Education for Immigrants
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How did educational opportunities for immigrant s and African Americans differ?
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What happened when the immigrants sent their children to free public schools?
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What is one example of the “Americanization” of the immigrants?
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Why were many Catholics concerned about public schools?
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What did they establish as an alternative?
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What did many adult immigrants do?
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Why did Henry Ford offer classes to his workers?
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What criticism was leveled at Henry Ford’s efforts to educate his workers?
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Expanding Higher Education
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Even though attendance figures showed increases, what was still in the minority?
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What percentage of young people were attending college?
Changes in Universities
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What happened to college enrollment between 1880 and 1920?
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Why do you think that research universities emerged?
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What did some colleges and universities begin to require for admission?
Higher Education for African Americans
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What universities were established between 1865 and 1868 with the help of the Freedman’s Bureau?
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What was the problem with segregated education?
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What did Booker T. Washington believe about racism?
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What institution did he head?
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With what would attendance at Tuskegee equip African Americans?
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For what was W. E. B. Du Bois known?
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What did Du Bois start?
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What did Du Bois believe about higher education?
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What did he propose?
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What was his most important political ideal?
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Even with expanded education, what would remain a problem for American society?
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