Réponse :
What was life like for African American after slavery?
1/Listen and answer the following questions.
a.What is the name of the system that followed slavery in the USA?
It is called Segregation.
b. When did it take place?
It took place 50 years ago.
c. Where was it a law? In the North? In the South?
Yes, it was the law especially in the south.
d. In this system, black people were enslaved?
Yes, they were.
Black and white people had to use separated facilities?
Yes, they were.
Black people and white people lived together in harmony?
No they did not they lived separated and out of touch.
e. Name at least 5 places where the system was applied.
Washington, Alabama, California and Minnesota.
2/ Underline what's wrong in these sentences and correct them.
a. Black people had to sit in the front of the buses.
White people had to sit in the front of the buses..
b. Black children weren't allowed to use drinking fountains.
Black children were allowed to use drinking fountains but not the white people’s.
c. Black people could go to public swimming-pools and beaches.
Black teens could go to public swimming-pools and beaches.
To make it short…
50 years ago years ago, segregation was the law, especially in the South of the USA.
It meant that Black people had to use different facilities.
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