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October 26, 2011U.S. History

Mr. Green

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

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 FridayWarm-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?

Agenda/Topics To Be Covered

African-Americans Fight Legal Discrimination1877 ended Northern Reconstruction in the

SouthSouthern Democrats took back control of state

governments Voting RestrictionsLiteracy TestsPoll TaxesGrandfather clausesThese actions deemed constitutional because

they said nothing about race

Segregation and Discrimination Ch. 8 Sec. 3 pgs. 309-313

Segregationschools, hospital, parks, and transportation systems throughout the South

Plessy v. Ferguson (1898)Separate but equal is constitutional

Jim Crow Laws

African-Americans subjected to social etiquette ritualsnever shook hands with whitesyield the sidewalk to whitesBlack men remove hats for whites

Booker T. Washington-gradual improvementsW.E.B. DuBois-address discrimination nowViolence

Lynchings

Turn of the Century Race Relations

Living accommodationsUnion membershipSimilar to the South in some areasNew York Race Riot of 1900

Discrimination in the WestMexican Workers Excluding the Chinese

Discrimination in the North

Independent Work-In what region or regions did it exist?

Who were its targets?

How did it affect the lives of these people?

1. Literacy test

2. Poll tax

3. Grandfather clause

4. Jim Crow laws

5. Racial etiquette

6. Debt peonage

7. Chinese Exclusion Act

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

Homework