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1 The Unit 4: American Life in the 20th Century CS 12: I can…analyze and evaluate how immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life. CS 13: I can… describe institutionalized racist practices in post-Reconstruction America.

2 Read Pages 308-309 24.4 1.Define the Great Migration 2.Identify the Push and Pull Factors of the Great Migration. 3.Who had a better life in the Industrial Age: African Americans or New Immigrants? Explain using multiple pieces of Evidence from BOTH New Immigrants experience and African America Experiences in your answer! CS 12: I can…analyze and evaluate how immigration, internal migration and urbanization transformed American life.

3 Institutionalized vs Individual Racism Graphic Organizer: ◦ What is it? ◦ What are examples of both today? Lecture ◦ When did it start? ◦ What are examples of it Post Reconstruction? ◦ What was most responsible for it staying around for so long?

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5 Lesson A: Military Reconstruction Civil War was over  northern troops sent down south to enforce new way of life ◦ Freedman's Bureau ◦ 13 th Amendment ◦ 14 th Amendment ◦ 15 th Amendment

6  Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

7 Civil War was over  northern troops left  “Redeemer” Governments: re-established power and sought “Redemption of the South”  Attempted to “reinstitute” superiority over blacks. ◦ Black Codes ◦ KKK ◦ Jim Crow Laws Lesson B: Military Reconstruction is OVER!

8 At the same time racism is being challenged in some parts of America, the Ku Klux Klan is gaining popularity in other parts. ◦ Violence ◦ Intimidation ◦ Target: SCHOOLS

9 New rules/laws  “Jim Crow” laws  were only for Black Americans (crow = black). ◦ Literacy tests ◦ Poll taxes ◦ Miscegenation ◦ Segregated public facilities Purpose  to deprive AA’s of new rights. Amendment XV The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

10 Those against racial discrimination  challenge racism through the courts. 1 st major case  was it legal to have “ separate but equal” facilities? ◦ Homer Plessy v. John H. Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court voted 7-1  YES! ◦ Kept racism institutionalized.


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