U.S. History: The "New" South v2

Front

Which Amendment protected African American voting rights? Options: 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th

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15th

Front

Which Amendment ended slavery?

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13th

Front

Which Amendment made everyone (except Native Americans) born in the USA a citizen?

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14th

Front

White Southern State governments ______

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Found creative ways to deny African Americans the vote

Front

Making voters pay money to vote. For example, $2 was an unattainable sum for most African Americans and poor whites.

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Poll Tax

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Making voters read and understand a passage from the state constitution in order to register to vote. African Americans were given extra difficult passages by county recorders.

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Literacy Test

Front

Some Southern states allowed poor whites to skip the poll tax and literacy test as long as their grandfather could vote (which was back before African Americans could vote).

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Grandfather Clause

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What laws were passed in Southern states that segregated society, preventing Blacks from sharing bathrooms, restaurants, train cars, and water fountains?

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Jim Crow Laws

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The Supreme Court Case that allowed "separate but equal" facilities for Whites and Blacks. It essentially legalized segregation.

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Plessy v Ferguson

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Laws that explicitly applied only to Black people and subjected them to criminal prosecution for “offenses” such as loitering, breaking curfew, vagrancy, having weapons, and not carrying proof of employment.

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Black Codes