America before 1954

MacCarthy

Questions

• Q1 How did the Jim Crow Laws help segregate American society?

• Create a thinking map to describe various ways these laws effected society

• Q2 What are some examples of non-violent protest

• Create a visual representation of a non-violent protest that your have been part of or seen

American Revolution

• The Great Awakening

• Church groups welcomed women, African Americans and Native Americans

• Also teaching them to read so they could understand the bible

American Revolution

• The ideas of “All men are created equal” and they have the “Unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”

• The ideas of slavery and freedom began to conflict with each other.

Cotton Gin

• Slavery was becoming less popular in the North and South

• Cotton Gin made it more profitable to produce cotton

• It required more slaves to pick the cotton

Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Free States and Slave States: The Missouri Compromise

• Scott sues for freedom

• Scott lost: violates property rights

Post Civil War

• 14th Amendment: all people born in the United States are citizens and have equal rights

• 15th Amendment: all citizens have the right to vote no matter there race or color

• Ku Klux Klan-restore control of the south

Voting

• Poll tax-having to pay money to vote

• Grandfather clause-you could only vote if your grandfather was able to vote

• Literacy Tests-Reading tests

• Intimidation-Threats from the KKK and others

Plessy v. Ferguson

• 1892 Homer Plessy sued over segregated railroad cars. Violations of equal protection of the law.

• “Separate but Equal”

• Two separate facilities are made

Jim Crow Laws

• Definition: Laws made to enforce segregation.

• Examples

• http://academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/jcrow02.

Mohandas Gandhi

• October 2, 1869-January 30, 1948

• Born under British rule of India

• Non-violent civil disobedience

• Hinduism

Mohandas Gandhi

• Nonviolent resistance is a method of social change that employs strategies such as strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and civil disobedience

• Violent resistance…..-