THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

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THE PROGRESSIVE ERA

• LIFE AT THE TURN OF CENTURY, THE 2OTH,1877-1917
• CH. 16

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• 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.

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SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION

• GROUPS OPPRESSED
• 1. MEXICANS
• 2. CHINESE
• 3. NATIVE AMERICANS
• 4. NEW IMMIGRANTS
• 5. BLACKS

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DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACKS

• A. VOTER RESTRICTIONS
• B. JIM CROW LAWS
• C. SCOTUS CASE

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VOTER RESTRICTIONS

• 1. LITERACY TESTS
• 2. POLL TAX
• 3. GRANDFATHER CLAUSE

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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

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• 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
  song-and-dance routine playing the role of an old
  black slave called "Jim Crow", he has also been
  called "father of American minstrelsy".

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SCOTUS CASE(SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES)

• PLESSY V. FERGUSON, 1896
• SEPARATE BUT EQUAL
• LEGALIZED, RACIAL SEGREGATION

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• 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 one-eighth 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

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

• SKYSCRAPERS, 1890S
• ELECTRIC TRANSIT (SUBWAYS, TROLLEYS) 1880S
• AIRPLANE, 1903
• CAMERA, KODAK

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Chicago's now demolished ten storey steel-framed
Home Insurance Building (1885) is generally
accepted asThe "first skyscraper".
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POPULAR CULTURE

• 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)

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