in-class #6: The Rise of Segregation
Read in the textbook chapter 13, section 5 only (pages 476-481) "The Rise of Segregation" and answer the questions below:
1. Why did many African Americans leave the South in the decades after the Civil War ended, where did many of them go, and why were they called "Exodusters"?
2. How did the Democratic Party (which controlled politics in the South until 50 years ago) prevent poor white farmers from joining politically with African American farmers?
3. How did Southern states deny the vote to African Americans, despite the 15th Amendment?
4. What were "Jim Crow" laws?
5. Why did the Supreme Court rule that the Civil Rights Act of 1875 -- --which barred discrimination in public places and on juries -- was unconstitutional?
6. The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision established what is known as the "separate but equal" doctrine." Explain this doctrine (page 479)
7. What were some of the ways African Americans in the late 1800s worked to end race-based violance and discrimination?