7.1: Segregation and Social Tensions

Cornell Notes: The Emergence of Modern America: The Gilded Age

• While watching the video, take Cornell Notes on the movie.

Open your texts to page 184 (Chapter 7: Lesson 1):

• Terms and People
• Checkpoint (p.188): How did Chinese immigrants use the court system to protest discrimination?
• Checkpoint (p.189): Why did Mexican Americans lose rights to their land?
• Thinking Critically (p.189): #1 & 2
• Transfer Activities (p.190): #1 & 2
• Critical Thinking (p.191): # 4, 5 & 6
• Homework: Summarize the sections called "African Americans Lose Freedoms" and "African Americans Oppose Injustices" in a 5 paragraph essay.  Include Jim Crow laws.

Plessy and the Era of Jim Crow