1. EQ: Who was “Jim Crow?”
PT: What was the outcome of the Thirteenth Amendment of the Constitution, ratified (passed) in January 1865?

2. Answer to the Prime Time:
The Thirteenth Amendment abolished (outlawed) slavery.

3. So… who was Jim Crow?
Jim Crow is the informal term for the practice of segregation (keeping blacks and whites separate in public places).
It takes its name from an 1838 minstrel show character, played by a white actor singing songs in blackface. Jump, Jim Crow

4. Jim Crow began after the Civil War
slavery required interaction between blacks & whites
ended when Union crushed Confederacy
segregation emerged because of political, economic, & legal reasons

5. - collapse of the Confederacy - defeated southern states
- collapse of the Confederacy defeated southern states reacted by enacting various regulations (Jim Crow laws) left four million black inhabitants as powerless as they had been while enslaved
- blacks still could not vote

6. Zigsaw Activity:
Students number off into six groups
Subject: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, & Fifteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America
(Notes go on Output page of interactive notebooks)

7. Reflection:
Comment on the Jim Crow laws.
Homework: Study the key points you learned about the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments