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Reconstruction: a success or a failure???

Aim: Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?

Do Now: Look at the sharecropping cycle diagram and answer the questions below;What was sharecropping? What do you think about this system? What does it remind you of?

A system of agriculture where a landowner rents his land to a poor farmer (sharecropper) who uses the land to grow crops and then has to give the landowner a share of the crops yielded. Sharecropping

One word to describe the Reconstruction period is.

Does Treating People Equally mean Treating the Same?Can you think of a time when to treat people equally, you must not treat them the same?

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)In 1890, the state of Louisiana passed a law called the "Separate Car Act", which stated "that all railway companies shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races"

The penalty for sitting in the wrong railway car was a fine of $25 or 20 days in jail.

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, who was of Creole and African descent, bought a first-class ticket to Covington, a small Louisiana town.

When a train conductor asked him to move to the back of the train, Plessy refused.

Plessy was forcibly removed and taken to jail to await trial on charges of violating the Louisiana law.

If you were Plessys lawyer, how would you argue that the US Constitution protects Homer Plessy? (Which amendment is relevant to this case?)

Task: Read the decision of the Supreme Court and.

Who won the case; Plessy or Ferguson?

Summarize the courts decision in your own words by completing

Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case that established separate but equal (segregation= Jim Crow Laws)

Segregation and Jim Crow LawsBlack codes- laws passed by state government of the South that denied equality to freedmen.Segregation - the legal separation of blacks and whites in public placesJim Crow Laws - laws that forced segregation

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Where does the name Jim Crow come from???

Closure Was Reconstruction a success or a failure?