Question

Is anyone in 8th grade or above that can help me? I'm desperate. medal, fan, and testimonial for all who try to help!!!

Answer 1

hello, what is your question

Answer 2

I need help with this portfolio. i have no clue what direction to go in or what to do. this is the prompt. if you could help me brainstorm and figure out what to do, that would be awesome. this is the prompt.

Answer 3

@ILovePuppiesLol

Answer 4

ok so lets select the first option, what is it asking for you to do

Answer 5

to write a 4 diary entries as if i was a former slave, carpet bagger, or african american in the time of the jim crowe laws

Answer 6

yes, so, let us research about how the times were back then

Answer 7

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Jim_Crow_laws.aspx use this

Answer 8

http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm this is what the lesson had attached

Answer 9

omg i have to go ._. sorry :( @jabez177 or @Mehek14 will help later

Answer 10

is there anyone online that could help me? i have to get this done in like and hour

Answer 11

*an

Answer 12

@pooja195 @Luigi0210

Answer 13

@jigglypuff314 @satellite73

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@imqwerty @rebeccaxhawaii

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@TheSmartOne @L094N16

Answer 16

@ILovePuppiesLol

Answer 17

yeah I'll help you what's the question ? @emmagrace231

Answer 18

i have to write 2 1-page diary entries as if i was a former slave, carpet bagger, or african american in the time of the jim crowe laws

Answer 19

i just don't know what to do

Answer 20

Well we need to understand the situation going on at the time first. without context first It will be difficult to write anything.

Answer 21

ok. this is the website they gave me to use to get info from http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

Answer 22

I'm pretty sure we're talking about the period from the 1870s onward. Remember after the civi war, the slaves were granted their freedom and given the right to vote. So imagine your entire life being owned by someone else in complete servitude and then someone coming along and saying HEY you're free now. Imagine also being given the right to vote.
Abraham Lincoln, before he was assassinated advocated for a policy of quick integration of the southern states back into the union.

But don't forget. the south was utterly devastated by the war and don't forget their economy was largely agrarian cash crops, worked on by slaves. so now after gaining their freedom the slaves now had to be paid wages. you can imagine that they would be competing with southern workers for jobs and such.

don't forget also they would have been a significant voting force too. From the description, of the laws on the page you sent it seems that the south created these laws to keep blacks as close to slave status as possible. so maybe you could talk about this as aspect too.

Answer 23

These laws were in a way legitimized by the supreme court in 1896 the case of Plessy vs ferguson where they argued in favor for segregation under the premise of separate yet equal.

the former slave would be not that difficult to describe you could talk about the civil war and gaining freedom and what your life was like etc.

after knowing what the laws were like, and based on the description I gave, you could easily paint a picture for the others.

Answer 24

FYI related but somewhat unrelated there's a book I read called 1877 which talks about a-lot of this stuff. long story short, the 1870s were a time of reconstruction of the south, followed by massive construction in railroads/industry. another thing business became extremely powerful people's wages went down too.

so the point of these laws is really to undermine political/economic gains former slaves won during the civil war.

Answer 25

that's really the gist of it.

Answer 26

•_• I don't know what to do, or how to be.

Answer 27

@Photon336