(EOTO) Plessy v Ferguson

    After hearing the trial Plessy v Ferguson, I was informed of many things that have gone on the past when it comes to rights for black Americans. How no matter of skin color, everything is looked at through the eye of a white man. 

Once my peers finished this argument between both parties, I was given the information that was somewhat related to the case. I learned many things I never knew existed in the past, specifically the 1890s. I knew of the Great Depression that was one of the many lows in American history. But what I didn't know of what downfalls that had came before it. One of them being the Depression of 1893. "The Depression of 1893 was one of the worst in American history with the unemployment rate exceeding ten percent for half a decade." 

    The Depression of 1893 included strikes, crusades, change in the economy and much more. But to change to a positive note, there was much economic growth. "Railroads opened new areas to agriculture, linking these to rapidly changing national and international markets...Railroad construction was an important spur to economic growth. Expansion peaked between 1879 and 1883, when eight thousand miles a year, on average, were built including the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific and Santa Fe...The post-Civil War generation saw an enormous growth of manufacturing. Industrial output rose by some 296 percent, reaching in 1890 a value of almost $9.4 billion. In that year the nation’s 350,000 industrial firms employed nearly 4,750,000 workers. Iron and steel paced the progress of manufacturing."

  

    

    There is much more information related to the economic highs and lows in the U.S but there is more to the topic that can co-inside to the main argument of Plessy v Ferguson, the fact that Greeks and Romans even had slaves. Although the religions are split into three , surprisingly, in the religion of Christianity, Jesus himself never spoke out about slavery. 

    In the Jim Crow era in 1896, while there was chaos, women fought for their rights. There was also financial depression aka The Panic of 1893. 

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