Transcript SSUSH13 The student will identify major efforts to reform American

THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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LIFE AT THE TURN OF CENTURY,
THE 2OTH,
1877-1917
CH. 16
• SSUSH13 The student will identify
major efforts to reform American
society and politics in the
Progressive Era.
• Describe the rise of Jim Crow, Plessy
v. Ferguson, and the emergence of
the NAACP.
SEGREGATION AND
DISCRIMINATION
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GROUPS OPPRESSED
1. MEXICANS
2. CHINESE
3. NATIVE AMERICANS
4. NEW IMMIGRANTS
5. BLACKS
DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST BLACKS
• A. VOTER RESTRICTIONS
• B. JIM CROW LAWS
• C. SCOTUS CASE
VOTER RESTRICTIONS
• 1. LITERACY TESTS
• 2. POLL TAX
• 3. GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
JIM CROW LAWS
• (AT THE SAME TIME, BLACKS LOST
SUFFRAGE…)
• state and local laws enacted primarily but
not exclusively in the Southern and border
states of the United States, between
1876 and 1965.
• SEPARATION OF BLACKS AND WHITES
IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FACITLITES
• Thomas Dartmouth (T.D.) "Daddy" Rice
(May 20, 1808 – September 19, 1860) was
a comedian in the blackface form of
comedy of the 19th century. Because he
developed an immediately popular songand-dance routine playing the role of an
old black slave called "Jim Crow", he has
also been called "father of American
minstrelsy".
SCOTUS CASE
(SUPREME COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES)
• PLESSY V. FERGUSON, 1896
• “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL”
• LEGALIZED, RACIAL
SEGREGATION
• On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy boarded a
car of the East Louisiana Railroad that was
designated by whites for use by white
patrons only. Although Plessy was oneeighth black and seven-eighths white,
under Louisiana state law he was classified
as an African-American, and thus required
to sit in the "colored" car. When Plessy
refused to leave the white car and move to
the colored car, he was arrested and jailed
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY
• SKYSCRAPERS, 1890S
• ELECTRIC TRANSIT (SUBWAYS,
TROLLEYS) 1880S
• AIRPLANE, 1903
• CAMERA, KODAK
Chicago's now demolished ten storey steel-framed
Home Insurance Building (1885) is generally accepted
asThe "first skyscraper".
POPULAR CULTURE
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AMUSEMENT PARKS, CONEY ISLAND, NY, 1884
BASEBALL (NL, AL); BLACK LEAGUES
MOTION PICTURES
HERSHEY CHOCOLATE BARS, 1900
COCA COLA, 1886
MONTGOMERY WARD AND SEARS CATALOGS
RFD, USPS (RURAL FREE DELIVERY)
NICKELODEONS, 1903 (5 CENT MOVIES)