Roll of thunder ppt
- 1. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Key Concepts
- 2. Emancipation Proclamation Issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863 during the American Civil War . It freed 3.1 million of the nation’s 4 million slaves.
- 3. The Fifteenth Amendment February 3, 1870 Prohibits each state in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" (i.e., slavery).
- 4. The Great Depression 1929 - 1939 During the 1930s much of the world faced harsh economic conditions. In the United States, 1 out of 4 people was out of work. Many were homeless. Many hungry people stood in long food lines to receive free food.
- 5. What is a Sharecropper? A person who works fields rented from a landowner. The sharecropper repays loans for shelter, land, seed, and fertilizer by turning over about 50% of the crops they raised to the landowner.
- 6. What is a Mortgage? An agreement by which someone borrows money from a bank to buy land or a home. The bank has the right to take possession of property if the loan is not repaid on time.
- 7. What is Prejudice? pre=before ; judice=to judge • To judge a person before knowing them • A preformed opinion, usually an unfavorable one, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings, or inaccurate stereotypes
- 8. What is Segregation? The practice of keeping ethnic, racial, religious, or gender groups separate by enforcing the use of separate schools, transportation, housing and other facilities.
- 9. de jure segregation segregation enforced by law Ex: separate schools and water fountains
- 10. de facto segregation • segregation that does not involve the law • how groups are actually segregated in a particular place or society
- 11. “Separate but Equal” • In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy vs. Ferguson that segregation was acceptable under the Constitution so long as the races were provided equal conditions. • In 1954 the Supreme Court reversed this decision in Brown v. Board of Education ending segregation in public schools.
- 12. Jim Crow Laws (1876-1965) • In the 1880’s racial segregation became legal in many Southern states. The “Jim Crow” laws required the separation of African-Americans from whites in public places such as restaurants, trains, buses, and schools, as well as many others. • The supporters claimed that African-Americans could use “separate but equal” facilities