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Warm-up. What is a stereotype ?. 13 th , 14 th and 15 th Amendments!. Question of the Day. What was life like for African Americans during Reconstruction? Was it better or worse than slavery?. What is an Amendment?.
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Warm-up • What is a stereotype?
Question of the Day • What was life like for African Americans during Reconstruction? Was it better or worse than slavery?
What is an Amendment? • Something that is added to our Constitution (which lays out everything the government can and cannot do in the US)
What is a Social Impact? • Effect of an activity on the social fabric (interactions between people) of the community and well being of the individuals and families.
What is a Political Impact? • The effect of an activity on the political situation of a community
Paper Debate • Write your name on a piece of paper • Answer the following question on your paper: • Which amendment do you think is the most important? Why? • Make sure you say why! • Crumple it up and throw it into the box.
Paper Debate • Pick a ball of paper out of the box. • Read the opinion and reply to the opinion using accountable talk (i.e. I think…. I believe… I agree because… I disagree because….) • Write your name above your response • 3 rounds
Life of African Americans after Reconstruction • Sharecropping- the system of farming in which former slaves worked on land they did not own in exchange for part of their crops • Tenant Farming- a system in which a person worked on land they did not own in exchange for paying the owner money or crops
Problem #1: Lack of Land • It was difficult for slaves to own land in the South due to continued mistreatment by whites • Former slaves did not have the money to buy land • Without their own land, they could not produce crops, which they would then sell for money
Attempted Solution #1: Tenant Farming Tenant Farming is… • When a person (freed slave or poor white) would work a piece of land that they didn’t own • Planters would divide their land into small plots and rent them to freed slaves and poor whites • Rent could be paid in either money or crops. This was bad because the tenant (person renting the land) had to pay in crops. If there was nothing left after the rent was paid, the tenant would not make any money
Attempted Solution #2: Share-Cropping • This was a form of tenant farming • Black and white landless farmers tried to earn money in order to buy land. • They rented land, grew crops, and the would sell them. • Rent on the land was paid in crops. They would SHARE the CROPS with the person who owned the land.
Problem #2: Rights for Slaves • Obviously, former slaves were not treated fairly in society. • They were still denied basic rights due to racism and other factors in society. • There needed to be some way that they could get things like: education, medical care, jobs, and other basic necessities.
Attempted Solution #2: The Freedmen’s Bureau • This was a government agency set up to help freed slaves “get on their feet” • It provided things like medical care, food, shelter, and education • It still did not address the lack of farm land, but it did become a place where former slaves could go if they needed help adjusting to their new role in society
Plessy V. Ferguson • Court case from 1892 that said “separate but equal” is allowed.
Last Thoughts • Plessy v. Ferguson allowed “Separate but Equal” • This allows segregation in all public places. • This is true until the case of Brown v. Board of Education
Jim Crow Laws were soon passed across the South; kept public places segregated
The American South was a dangerous place for Black Americans at this time
Lynchings were crimes carried out by racist white mobs; usually a hanging
Although free, blacks living in the south were oppressed by a corrupt and racist system Black Sharecroppers - made only enough to survive White brutal authority ran the South
Even as Blacks made strides in North, Jim Crow Laws kept Blacks and Whites segregated
Booker T. Washington • Believed African Americans should work together with Whites • Wanted African Americans to slowly adjust to lifestyles similar to the whites • Valued job education
W.E.B. DuBois • Believed a liberal arts education could help African Americans out of their situation • Believed liberal arts were more important than job training
Exit Slip No Notes No Talking Was life for African Americans better during Reconstruction than as slaves? Why or why not? Answer this question in 1 paragraph
Close • Turn in your exit slips and your text analysis