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| -rw-r--r-- | smith/02_color_line | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | smith/03_gilded_age | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/smith/02_color_line b/smith/02_color_line index ac84991..5955bfa 100644 --- a/smith/02_color_line +++ b/smith/02_color_line @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ employed? - "Freedmen's Bureau" (1865-1870) helped connect family members and developed black freedmen's schools and work. - Government authorized giving/renting confiscated land to - freedmen, but many officials corrupt. + freedmen, but many officials corrupt. - So whites used contracts with freedmen to maintain their own power. - Southern whites pressured Congress into shuttering Freedmen's @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ employed? Amendments ratified by all states (including by Southern states, which were required to ratify on condition of admission into the union): -13th Amendment (1865) +13th Amendment (1865) - Abolished slavery 14th Amendment (1868) - Guaranteed citizenship to natural US citizens, except Natives @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ Jim Crow laws 1896: LA passes separate cars act, requiring equal but separate - racial segregation + racial segregation "Necessary to prevent danger of friction of interaction between races" diff --git a/smith/03_gilded_age b/smith/03_gilded_age index d61e2d1..2ba9741 100644 --- a/smith/03_gilded_age +++ b/smith/03_gilded_age @@ -134,5 +134,3 @@ for modern life (like Coney Island) Escape from tenements and factory life Contrasts with slow, bucolic Central Park Phase transition in urban life - - |