AA gilded age

Question 1

Pos: How many AA farmers owned their own land by 1910

Answer 1

25%
- slow move to AA owning own land

Question 2

Pos: segregation meant formation of?

Answer 2

Black communities

• hairdressers, restaurants, self-help groups, church communities

Question 3

Pos: georgia blacks

Answer 3

built 1544 schools and educated over 11000 students

Question 4

Pos: beginning of what important group?

Answer 4

NAACP

Question 5

Neg: Us v Harris

Answer 5

1883

Supreme court ruled the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional. Stated that private discrimination did not fall under federal jurisdiction

Question 6

Neg: Plessy

Answer 6

1896

Question 7

Neg: Wilkins v Mississippi

Answer 7

1898

Question 8

Neg: Hayes- tilden compromise

Answer 8

1877

Question 9

Neg: sharecropping

Answer 9

Sharecroppers continued to earn low profits, and their ‘masters’ often exploited them. It did provide them a living, but hard labour for not much money. HVR the poor rural environment most AAs lived in was not good. In 1900 almost 90% of AAs lived in the South. Often excluded from workforce and unions.

Question 10

Neg: ghettos

Answer 10

Black ghettos began to develop. In South and North. While in North there was no legal segregation being enforced, there was definitely still discrimination. Poor areas, poor schools, poor healthcare.

Question 11

Neg: lynchings

Answer 11

2.7k from 1885-1917

Question 12

Neg: Wake of populist movement

Answer 12

state govts in south sought to exclude blacks from political life altogether