https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz Made with fortitude en-us 2020-02-11 14:49:18 UTC 2020-02-14 14:57:14 UTC hello@padlet.com janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/444354746 Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks.]]> 2020-02-12 14:40:36 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/444354746 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/444359469 Jim Crow Laws began in 1877 when the Supreme Court ruled that states couldn't prohibit segregation on common modes of transportation such as trains, streetcars, and riverboats. Later, in 1883, the Supreme Court overturned specific parts of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, confirming the “separate but equal” concept.]]> 2020-02-12 14:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/444359469 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445004138 Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The case stemmed from an 1892 incident in which African American train passenger Homer Plessy refused to sit in a car for blacks.]]> 2020-02-13 14:36:27 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445004138 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445010300 Lynchings were a method of social and racial control meant to terrorize black Americans into submission, and into an inferior racial caste position. They became widely practiced in the US south from roughly 1877, the end of post-civil war reconstruction, through 1950.]]> 2020-02-13 14:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445010300 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445012351 On October 29, 1929, Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America and the rest of the industrialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression in 1929-39, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time.]]> 2020-02-13 14:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445012351 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445016249 The Dust Bowl was the name given to the drought-stricken Southern Plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a dry period in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. ]]> 2020-02-13 14:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445016249 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445016836 A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an “Invisible Empire of the South.” ]]> 2020-02-13 14:50:39 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445016836 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445019234 Jim Crow laws were a collection of state and local statutes that legalized racial segregation. Named after a black minstrel show character, the laws—which existed for about 100 years, from the post-Civil War era until 1968—were meant to marginalize African Americans by denying them the right to vote, hold jobs, get an education or other opportunities. ]]> 2020-02-13 14:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445019234 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445022035 After the Compromise of 1877 led to the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, Democrats consolidated control of state legislatures throughout the region, effectively marking the end of Reconstruction. Southern blacks saw the promise of equality under the law embodied by the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment to the Constitution receding quickly, and a return to disenfranchisement and other disadvantages as white supremacy reasserted itself across the South.]]> 2020-02-13 14:56:16 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445022035 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445125685 Most of the lynchings that took place happened in the South.  A big reason for this was the end of the Civil War.  Once black were given their freedom, many people felt that the freed blacks were getting away with too much freedom and felt they needed to be controlled. ]]> 2020-02-13 16:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445125685 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445128010 During the 1920s, the U.S. stock market underwent rapid expansion, reaching its peak in August 1929, after a period of wild speculation. By then, production had already declined and unemployment had risen, leaving stocks in great excess of their real value. Among the other causes of the eventual market collapse were low wages, the proliferation of debt, a struggling agricultural sector and an excess of large bank loans that could not be liquidated.]]> 2020-02-13 16:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445128010 janea_bradley https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445129652 The Dust Bowl was caused by several economic and agricultural factors, including federal land policies, changes in regional weather, farm economics and other cultural factors. After the Civil War, a series of federal land acts coaxed pioneers westward by incentivizing farming in the Great Plains.]]> 2020-02-13 16:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/janea_bradley/guq6qqsro2mz/wish/445129652