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Chapter 8, Section 3

Read pages 309-313

1.      How did Southern states keep African Americans from voting and participating in the political life of the South?

2.     Identify: Jim Crow laws and segregation. 

3.     What happened in Plessy vs. Ferguson and why was it significant?

4.     Compare the philosophies of WEB du Bois and Booker T. Washington about racial equality.

5.     How were race relations at the turn-of-the-century in the North and South?

6.     How were Mexicans discriminated against out West?

7. Why did Congress pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?