1. QOTD 19) The Seventeenth Amendment (17th): a) ended segregation.
b) banned alcohol.
c) meant senators could be directly elected by the people.
d) gave women the right to vote.

2. QOTD 19) The Seventeenth Amendment (17th):
c) meant senators could be directly elected by the people.

3. Today’s Standard SSUSH 13
Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy v. Ferguson, and the emergence of the NAACP.

4. Segregation / Discrimination
Racism, Jim Crow, and Discrimination During the Progressive Era

5. Discrimination Continues
1) Reconstruction and Amendments 13, 14, and 15 gave African-Americans full rights
Yet they still faced discrimination in the South
Voting restrictions became common

6. Voting Restrictions 2) A) Poll taxes
African-Americans and poor whites had trouble affording this
B) Literacy tests
C) “grandfather clause” – Whites who had a grandfather that voted were exempt from restriction

7. Jim Crow More laws were passed in the South
Discriminatory to African Americans
3) “Jim Crow” laws
Named after a cartoon character
4) Becomes known as segregation
“Separate-but-equal”

8. “Separate-but-Equal” Facilities

9. Plessy v. Ferguson
Some tried to fight Jim Crow laws by taking it to court
5) Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy
Argued against separate but equal
The case ended up going to the Supreme Court in 1896
6) The Supreme Court upheld “separate but equal”
Plessy loses

10. Race Relations Worsen
African-Americans were expected to accept these things
1) Those who didn’t were often lynched
Shot, burned, or hung illegally without trial
They were murdered
2) Many African-Americans saw the North as a refuge
However discrimination existed there as well.

11. Resisting Discrimination
African-American leaders began to make a stand
3) Ida B. Wells – journalist who advocated against lynching
4) Booker T. Washington
Supported legal cases against segregation
5) W.E.B. DuBois
United African-Americans and civil rights supporters
Eventually founded the Nat’l Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909
NAACP

12. Ida B. Wells

13. W.E.B. Du Bois

14. Booker T. Washington

15. 6) Tuskegee Institute

16. Unit 5 Study Guides 1) Age of Invention 2) The Rise of Big Business
3) Labor Unions
4) Immigration
5) The War In The West
6) The Progressive Era
7) Segregation / Discrimination during the Progressive Era