Warm-up What were reasons the government would want to remove Native Americans from their homes?

Objectvies Terms: Homestead Act, Jim Crow Laws, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Poll Tax Changing the west Segregation and Social Tensions

Farmers Immigrants were recruited to start farms out West. Homestead Act of 1860 gave 160 acres to individual farmers if they stayed on the land for 5 years. Southern blacks found new opportunities out West. Some even joined the U.S. Army as Buffalo Soldiers to combat American Indian resistance out west. Tough conditions: hot summers, cold winters, sod houses, few trees, wind-swept plains Improved technology: barbed wire, windmill, irrigation, more scientific farming methods and commercial agriculture. Benjamin Singleton of the “Exodusters”

Jim Crow Laws What are they? Electronics, or by memory. List as many in your notes that you can think of.

W.E.B. DuBois Felt talented black students should get a classical education Felt it was wrong to expect citizens to “earn their rights” Founded the NAACP along with other black and white leaders

W.E.B. DuBois g Born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts Well educated-First African American to receive Ph.D. from Harvard Wanted immediate equality between blacks and whites g Wanted classical higher education for blacks g Wrote The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Booker T. Washington g Born a slave in southwestern Virginia Believed in vocational education for blacks g Founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama g Believed in gradual equality The slang term “Uncle Tom” is used in the African American or black community to describe someone who is perceived as overly ingratiating in interactions with white people. The term is meant to imply that the Uncle Tom is subservient and excessively deferential, behaving as someone of a lesser class or social status rather than treating whites as equals. Usually, this term is used as an insult. (definition from WiseGeek.com) Accused of being an “Uncle Tom” g Received much white support g Wrote Up From Slavery (1901)

Poll Tax- Required people to pay taxes to vote. 1-2$ Literacy Tests- Understanding test needed to be passed to vote.

Voter I.D. 34 States have some kind of Voter ID. Do you think it is fair to ask for Voter ID? What about those who cannot afford to get IDs?