america before 1954
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America before 1954
MacCarthy
Questions
• Q1 How did the Jim Crow Laws help segregate American society?
• Create a thinking map to describe various ways these laws effected society
• Q2 What are some examples of non-violent protest
• Create a visual representation of a non-violent protest that your have been part of or seen
American Revolution
• The Great Awakening
• Church groups welcomed women, African Americans and Native Americans
• Also teaching them to read so they could understand the bible
American Revolution
• The ideas of “All men are created equal” and they have the “Unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”
• The ideas of slavery and freedom began to conflict with each other.
Cotton Gin
• Slavery was becoming less popular in the North and South
• Cotton Gin made it more profitable to produce cotton
• It required more slaves to pick the cotton
Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Free States and Slave States: The Missouri Compromise
• Scott sues for freedom
• Scott lost: violates property rights
Post Civil War
• 14th Amendment: all people born in the United States are citizens and have equal rights
• 15th Amendment: all citizens have the right to vote no matter there race or color
• Ku Klux Klan-restore control of the south
Voting
• Poll tax-having to pay money to vote
• Grandfather clause-you could only vote if your grandfather was able to vote
• Literacy Tests-Reading tests
• Intimidation-Threats from the KKK and others
Plessy v. Ferguson
• 1892 Homer Plessy sued over segregated railroad cars. Violations of equal protection of the law.
• “Separate but Equal”
• Two separate facilities are made
Jim Crow Laws
• Definition: Laws made to enforce segregation.
• Examples
• http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.
Mohandas Gandhi
• October 2, 1869-January 30, 1948
• Born under British rule of India
• Non-violent civil disobedience
• Hinduism
Mohandas Gandhi
• Nonviolent resistance is a method of social change that employs strategies such as strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and civil disobedience
• Violent resistance…..-
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