Unit 4 Topic 1 Vocab - Jim Crow

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A person who rejected changes from the Civil War, especially the end of slavery.

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Bourbon Democrat

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A law granting voting rights if a person's father or grandfather had voted.

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Grandfather clause

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Laws by southern legislators restricting African Americans' freedom and enforcing separate facilities for whites and blacks.

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Jim Crow laws

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Tax paid to vote

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Poll tax

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Labor system where a planter rents land to a farmer for cash crops, sharing profits.

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Sharecropping

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Separation of people by race

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Segregation

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1896 Supreme Court case ruling separate-but-equal constitutional, legalizing segregation.

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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The right to vote

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suffrage

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Deprivation of a right or privilege, especially the right to vote.

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Disenfranchisement

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Test to assess reading/writing skills, often ambiguous, used to disqualify African American voters.

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Literacy test