Plessy v. Ferguson/Separate but equal
He purposely revealed that he was part Black and got arrested.
Who is Homer Plessy?
How did Jim Crow laws affect African Americans in the South?
It made life very hard for African Americans in the South by forcing them to be treated unfairly, separated from white people, and denied equal rights
Why did the women’s suffrage movement start?
a. Women wanted the right to own farms
b. To combat women’s legal, economic, and political inequality
c. Women wanted to be treated equally
What is b & c
Where did the immigration take place?
Where is New York
Was Benjamin Harrison the 20th, 23rd, or 19th president?
What is the 23rd
The Supreme Court ruling said that separating African Americans and white people was allowed as long as the facilities were supposedly the same.
What is separate but equal?
How did the Jim Crow laws affect voting rights?
Using unfair rules like literacy tests, poll taxes, and violence to stop them from voting
Who started the women's suffrage movement?
A. Susan B Anthony
B. Rosa Parks
C. Jospehine Dodge
What is A
How was housing for people living in New York at the time?
What is it was overcrowded.
In what year was Benjamin Harrison born: 1823, 1820, or 1833?
What is 1833
When did the Plessy v. Ferguson trial end?
When is 1896?
How did Jim Crow laws make segregation legal?
Laws made segregation legal by creating rules that required separate facilities for African Americans and white people.
What are 2 examples of black women being excluded from the suffrage movements?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony wrote the History of Woman Suffrage in the 1880s; they featured white suffragists while largely ignoring the contributions of African American suffragists.
Black women often had to march separately from white women in suffrage parades.
Mainstream organizations did not address the challenges faced by Black women because of their race, such as negative stereotypes, harassment, and unequal access to jobs, housing, and education.
What things were most affected by the overcrowding?
What were housing, Healthcare, and Sanitation
What is one of Benjamin Harrison's greatest achievements?
He sang the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law that was meant to limit powerful business monopolies and promote fair competition.
The image used to depict the Plessy v. Ferguson trial.
What is a train cart with 2 passenger coaches?
What kinds of places were segregated under Jim Crow laws?
School buses, buildings, etc.
What was the difference between the NWP (National Women’s Party) protest methods and the NAWSA (National Woman Suffrage Association) protest methods?
Silent Sentinels: Pioneered picketing the White House for 18 months, causing public and political uproar.
Direct Action: Targeted the "party in power" (Democrats) to pass the 19th Amendment immediately.
Civil Disobedience & Martyrdom: Deliberately got arrested, held hunger strikes, and endured forced feeding, drawing media attention and public sympathy.
Radical Tactics: Burned Woodrow Wilson's speeches in "watchfire" protests and hung him in effigy.
Focus: Focused on a national amendment and was composed of a smaller, intensely active membership.
NAWSA (Moderate & Political) — Source: https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage
Lobbying and Petitions: Focused on traditional lobbying of politicians and state-level legislation before turning to a national strategy.
"Winning Plan": Combined state-by-state work with federal lobbying in a structured, long-term approach.
Support for War Work: Paused picketing and focused on patriotic volunteering during World War I to win favor.
Structure: Maintained a massive, mainstream organization (over 2 million members) and avoided disruptive tactics that might alienate voters.
What was the Statue of Liberty known to give immigrants a sense of?
What is hope and new beginnings
Name at least 2 out of the 6 states that joined the union during his single four-year term.
North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming
Homer Plessy could pass for White and could have easily sat in the "First Class" car without anyone noticing. Why do you think he chose to announce his race and get arrested on purpose instead of just riding comfortably?
It was part of an orchestrated test case, and he wanted to challenge the Separate Car Act.
How did the legal challenges and civil rights movements work to dismantle Jim Crow laws?
Legal challenges by civil rights lawyers and groups like the NAACP, along with protests, marches, and boycotts during the Civil Rights Movement, led to Supreme Court decisions and federal laws (such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965) that ended Jim Crow segregation and discrimination.
fcWhat were the goals of the women’s suffrage movement leaders, and why were they controversial during this time?
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul aimed to achieve political equality, enabling women to shape laws, control property, access education, and gain autonomy over their lives
They were controversial because the primary focus was on challenging traditional gender roles, utilizing radical tactics like picketing and hunger strikes, and disrupting the established social and political order
In what year did millions of immigrants come into the US?
A. 1892
B.1912
C.1901
D.1893
What is A. 1892
What bill did he support that protected black citizens, but Congress didn’t pass it?
Civil Rights Act of 1870