Original PromptThis document explores the Jim Crow era, focusing on how laws institutionalized racial segregation and inequality in the American South from 1877 to 1950. It begins with an overview of the end of Reconstruction and the implementation of Jim Crow laws that marginalized African Americans. Key vocabulary terms such as 'segregation,' 'disenfranchisement,' and the doctrine of 'separate but equal' are defined. Primary source documents, including the Louisiana Act of 1890 and the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case, are analyzed to evaluate their impact on legal and social structures of segregation. The document includes various activities aimed at understanding the contrast between Southern legal practices and Northern de facto segregation, backed by visual and statistical evidence. Students are encouraged to articulate claims about the social impacts of segregation on daily life, culminating in structured note-taking and argument construction activities.