7.1: Segregation and Social Tensions

DAY 1 (Thursday)

• Checkpoint (p.186): In what ways were the rights of African Americans restricted?
• Checkpoint (p.187): How did Wells, Washington, and Du Bois protest the mistreatment of African Americans?
• 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
• Checkpoint (p.191): What successes did women achieve in the years after Reconstruction?
• Section 1 Assessment (p.191):  #1, 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.

STOP --- We will pick this next piece up when I return.

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

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

Plessy and the Era of Jim Crow

13th Amendment: December 6, 1865 -- Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.  This would have made African American's "equal", but something called "The Black Codes" were put into place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Codes_(United_States)

The 14th Amendment:  Ratified on July 9, 1868, and granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.

Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.^[1]

Homer Plessy:

The REAL Home Plessy: