MGT 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jim Crow Laws, Homicide
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Early settlement: displacement of native people, us had pattern of making and then breaking treaties with native groups, by late 1800s, pretty much all native people were on reservations. In 1(cid:890)3(cid:890) and 1(cid:890)3(cid:891), as part of andrew jackson"s indian removal policy, the. Cherokee nation was forced to give up its land east of the mississippi river (georgia) and to migrate to an area in present-day oklahoma: thousands died from disease or exposure. Slavery was in direct opposition to value equality. Some conflicts were particularly atrocious, for example, even when groups tried to surrender, they were killed: lynching period. Between 1889-1930, more than 3700 lynching of blacks & whites occurred. Lynching was used as a form of social control to suppress voting and economic power of freed blacks. Jim crow laws formalized segregation and eased some of the tension among whites: bandits. Robbed the rich and gave to the poor. Unattached males: not married, not working, not attached to social institutions.