Unit 5 Vocab

Front

Unfairly separating people into groups.

Back

Segregation

Front

Laws that legalized segregation post-Civil War.

Back

Jim Crow Laws

Front

Allowed freed slaves and poor white farmers to rent land from landowners for a share of the crop.

Back

Sharecropping

Front

Taking away citizenship or voting rights.

Back

Disenfranchisement

Front

A noisy, sometimes violent public disorder caused by a crowd.

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Riot

Front

Yesterday's _____ left the city destroyed and caused a curfew.

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Riot

Front

John is poor and rents land from Mr. Woodall. He is a _______.

Back

Sharecropper

Front

Fear and violence used by southern whites to prevent African Americans from voting after the 15th amendment.

Back

Disenfranchisement

Front

Plessy V. Ferguson upheld segregation as legal under 'separate but equal'. What laws did it support?

Back

Jim Crow Laws

Front

Separate schools for African American children until the 1960s.

Back

Segregation