Lesson 39 (1)-1 - Assignment for APUSH PDF

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Questions: Part A 1. Concerning politics, blacks did not have much of a say. They lost their civil rights as discriminatory laws were passed and resulted in the disenfranchisement of black voters by 1900. Economically, blacks were using sharecropping and being tenant farmers to make money. They were mostly poor however, because they did not have many opportunities for jobs. Socially, they faced discrimination as well as segregation. They were looked down on. 2. They did not achieve total equality by the end of reconstruction due to the discriminatory laws such as Jim Crow Laws, Discrimination, and segregation in America. 3. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation in public places illegal. Separate drinking fountains, bathrooms, and waiting rooms were now against the law. In 1965, the Voting Right Act banned the poll taxes and literacy tests. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 made discrimination in the areas of housing sales and apartment rentals illegal. African-Americans have been able to secure good jobs and get promoted to better positions within their companies. Their standard of living has improved by a short amount. But a lot of things stayed the same. Questions: Part B

1. Booker T. Washington’s method for achieving equality was through peace and through the improvement of their educational and economic well-being. He felt that blacks should develop good relations with whites and instead of demanding for the things they deserved, they should improve themselves and wait for their time to come. While W.E.B DuBois felt that blacks should have demanded equal rights and protested against everything that was unfair. 2. They were more acceptable as they were peaceful methods instead of protesting. His did not include violence. Also with this way of thinking, southerners would not be forced to change their ways and adopt equal rights for all, instead they could take their time and do it when they considered the time to be right.

3. They used peaceful non-violent protests to achieve equality for African Americans.

4. He would have faced the issues that came with protests. There would have been lots of violence and many people may have been killed with this program. Also, a lot of southerners would not agree with it. Overall it would make achieving equality even harder for blacks.

5. He says that Washington was a revolutionary leader. In the reading he talked about Washington's life program and said, “A life program that offered opportunities or space for initiative, advancement, growth and maturity.” He also talked about how “Washington offered an advance to his race and not a retreat and conceived himself as a revolutionary leader.” 6. Their methods of education and improving their lives were valid but there was not a way during that time period that they were just going to be able to compromise with the racist people by showing them their “worth and value”. They were going to pay no attention. Dubois had this idea in mind making his method seem a bit more appropriate. He said that they were going to have to fight and protest in order to get their equal rights. And he was right....