1.1. Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s
1.2. Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens
1.3. Many Christian ministers and theologians taught that whites were the Chosen people, blacks were cursed to be servants, and God supported racial segregation.
1.4. A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of rape.
1.5. Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.
1.6. Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female -- that gesture implied intimacy.
2. Jim Crow rules
2.1. 1. Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying. 2. Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person. 3. Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class. 4. Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence. 5. Never curse a white person. 6. Never laugh derisively at a white person. 7. Never comment upon the appearance of a white female.
3. impact of jim crow
3.1. segregation between blacks and whites, Discriminated color people, segregated people in restroom, buses, water fountains etc. lynchings happen if they did not obey.
4. Plessy Vs. Ferguson
4.1. On June 7, 1892, a 30-year-old colored shoemaker named Homer Plessy was jailed for sitting in the "White" car of the East Louisiana Railroad
4.2. Plessy was only one-eighths black and seven-eighths white, but under Louisiana law, he was considered black and therefore required to sit in the "Colored" car
4.3. violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments
5. emancipation proclamation
5.1. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 freed African Americans in rebel states, and after the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment emancipated all U.S
6. After the Civil War, with the protection of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, African Americans enjoyed a period when they were allowed to vote,
7. The Spanish American War
7.1. The battleship Maine drifted lazily at its mooring
7.2. "protect American interests.
7.3. Crews from nearby ships manned lifeboats to rescue the surviving crewmen of the Maine.
7.4. The World was the first newspaper to introduce colored comics
7.5. The Yellow Kid
7.6. The United States Army was not prepared for war. After the Civil War, the country had drastically reduced its army
7.7. the Olympia led the fleet in single file toward its enemy
7.8. Cuban soldiers, who had nearly won their island's independence from Spain by the time Teddy Roosevelt arrived
7.9. If the Spanish could destroy the Americans' supply line, he thought, they could force the enemy to withdraw
7.10. The Oregon fired the first shot of the battle, and soon black smoke blurred the bay.
7.11. "It's been a splendid little war,"
8. white negroes and smoked irish
8.1. Penal laws
8.2. Catholics were not permitted to vote
8.3. Anglo irish
8.4. Society of the united irishmen
8.5. Act of Union 1800
8.6. Emigrants did not represent the poorest layer of irish society
8.7. The irish were thrown together with african americans
8.8. Only white persons can be naturalized as citizens
8.9. Did Jews and other and others became white because of middle class?
8.10. The GI Bill of rights
8.11. Education and ocupation
8.12. FHA and VA
9. How did jews became white folks
9.1. The red scare of 1919
9.2. 1920s scientific racism sanctified the notion that realAmericans were white and that real white come from west Europe
10. Grandfather clause
10.1. African Americans Could not vote
11. Spanish sent Cubans to concentration maps
12. GI bill of Rights
12.1. Stablished to developed force skills
13. Jews were the first one to enter college in the U.sS Coming from Europe
14. Brown V. Board of Education
14.1. expand legal rights of African Americans
15. Napoleonic War
15.1. domestic Manufacture grown
16. Rosa park
16.1. Started the Montgomery Bus boycott in 1955
17. Penal laws
17.1. No catholic could escape
17.2. Catholics were not allowed to vote
18. "racism fused with eugenies in scientific circles"
19. The red scare
19.1. Anti immigrants with anti working sentiment in 1919
19.2. Economic depression
20. Census 1850
20.1. Fist to include a class called "Mulattoes"
21. 1866-1877
21.1. Reconstruction was implemented by congress
21.2. It aimed to reorganize the southern states after the civil war
