LATE 1800s IMPERIALISM & SEGREGATION

Plessy v. Ferguson

1896

U.S Supreme Court decision that legalizes Jim Crow laws that permitted “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites

passed laws mandating racial segregation in every aspect of southern life (schools, hospitals, waiting rooms, toilets, cemeteries) facilities for blacks were either nonexistent or markedly inferior segregation was one part of white domination

Wilmington coup

1898

• Wilmington, NC had a majority-Black population and Black Republican leaders which White Democrats didn’t like • White Democrats and supremacists spread racist propaganda (false crimes, political cartoons)

• After whites won election, White supremacists burned the Black-owned Daily Record (a way that blacks get information and organize themselves), forced Black officials out, and killed blacks • The coup was later covered up and falsely blamed on Black residents, solidifying Jim Crow rule in North Carolina

American Samoas

1899

A group of islands in the South Pacific controlled by the United States.

The U.S. gained American Samoa as part of its imperial expansion, using it as a strategic naval base remains an unincorporated U.S territory -aren’t fully protected by the U.S. Constitution (although it is part of the U.S)

Emilio Aguinaldo

Late 1890s-early 1900s

Filipino revolutionary leader who fought for independence for his country from Spain and later the United States.

He first helped the U.S. defeat Spain in the Spanish-American War led the Philippine-American War when the U.S. refused to grant independence. (one of the bloodiest wars in U.S History but is not often told in U.S History curriculum) tried to convince President McKinley that the Philippines should govern itself,