Lives of African Americans

Question 1

African Americans

Progress in terms of employment

African Americans could …

Many wanted …

Some found employment in …

Answer 1

• African Americans could move between plantations and regions meaning they could move to find work
• Many wanted higher income jobs and so moved from border states to areas such as Georgia and Mississippi
• Some found employment in farming, building railroads, making turpentine and lumbering

Question 2

Setbacks in terms of employment

How did African American population change? Many remained in…

What were most African Americans employed as (in south)?

Setback for farmers ?

Answer 2

• 1870-1900 African American population doubled from 4.4 million to 7.9 million
• Many remained in the south.
• Most were tied to farming- sharecropping caused low wages and ‘masters’ insisted they continued to grow cotton and tobacco as it was an advantage to have cheap workers for labour intensive crops
• Boll weevil caused depressions and living standards deteriorated after 1892.

Question 3

Standard of living progress in north

Answer 3

• No legal segregation in the north
• Greater possibility of franchise for black people in the north
• Strong black culture emerging

Question 4

Standard of living setbacks - In North

What formed ? How did this affect reactions to African Americans?

How else were AA restricted?

Conditions?

Answer 4

• Black ghettos formed after migration to the north - - caused negative reactions to African Americans
• Frequently barred from trade unions and returned from work to poor quality housing
• Experienced discrimination and limited access to
  employment, education, housing and confinement to certain area caused bad conditions.

Question 5

15th Amendment?

Answer 5

15th Amendment outlaws voting discrimination on grounds of race

Question 6

Franchise setbacks- setbacks in relation to politics and voting

Answer 6

• After reconstruction the number of black people in politics goes down
• Southern states rules prevent black voting + KKK
• 1910 - near elimination in black vote in the South

Question 7

Equality progress

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Answer 7

Separate facilities were supposed to be of the same standard [THEY WERE NOT]

Question 8

Equality setbacks

Jim crow laws introduced what and when?

What was the perception of African Americans?

What was social darwinism?

Answer 8

• Formal segregation introduced with Jim Crow Laws from 1887-1891
• Perception - African Americans were underclass
• Social darwinism - introduces hierarchy of races

Question 9

Progress of schools in the south?

Answer 9

• From 1877 to 1887 the number of Black schools doubles
• By the 1890s segregated schools were slowly disappearing

Question 10

Education setbacks

Answer 10

• 1882 - Senator Blairs bill to provide millions to all Southern schools, rejected by congress
• By 1887 still only ⅖ eligible black children enrolled in schools
• White schools had longer terms and more money
• Little state subsidies for black students